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Job Replies: My Redeemer Lives
Then Job answered and said:
Then Job answered and said:
Job: My Redeemer Lives
And Job answered and said,
And Job answered and said,
“How long will you torment me
and break me in pieces with words?
and break me in pieces with words?
How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
are you not ashamed to wrong me?
are you not ashamed to wrong me?
These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.
And even if it be true that I have erred,
my error remains with myself.
my error remains with myself.
And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me
and make my disgrace an argument against me,
and make my disgrace an argument against me,
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,
know then that God has put me in the wrong
and closed his net about me.
and closed his net about me.
Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.
Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered;
I call for help, but there is no justice.
I call for help, but there is no justice.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass,
and he has set darkness upon my paths.
and he has set darkness upon my paths.
He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
He has stripped from me my glory
and taken the crown from my head.
and taken the crown from my head.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone,
and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.
He has kindled his wrath against me
and counts me as his adversary.
and counts me as his adversary.
And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.
His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.
“He has put my brothers far from me,
and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
My relatives have failed me,
my close friends have forgotten me.
my close friends have forgotten me.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;
I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.
I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.
I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.
My breath is strange to my wife,
and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.
and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.
My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.
Even young children despise me;
when I rise they talk against me.
when I rise they talk against me.
Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
All my intimate friends abhor me,
and those whom I loved have turned against me.
and those whom I loved have turned against me.
All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh,
and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has touched me!
for the hand of God has touched me!
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.
Why do you, like God, pursue me?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
“Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Oh that with an iron pen and lead
they were engraved in the rock forever!
they were engraved in the rock forever!
That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;
And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;
whom I shall see for myself,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints within me!
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints within me!
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: -- my reins are consumed within me.
If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,