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21 Pity me, pity me, you my friends,
    for the hand of God has struck me!
22 Why do you pursue me like God,
    and prey insatiably upon me?
23 Oh, would that my words were written down!(A)
    Would that they were inscribed in a record:[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 19:23–24 What Job is about to say is so important that he wants it recorded in a permanent manner.

21 “Have pity on me, my friends,(A) have pity,
    for the hand of God has struck(B) me.
22 Why do you pursue(C) me as God does?(D)
    Will you never get enough of my flesh?(E)

23 “Oh, that my words were recorded,
    that they were written on a scroll,(F)

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