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Job Replies: My Redeemer Lives
Then Job answered and said:
Then Job answered and said:
Job: My Redeemer Lives
Then Job answered and said,
Then 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 break me in pieces 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 that ye make yourselves strange to me.
And even if it be true that I have erred,
my error remains with myself.
my error remains with myself.
And be it indeed 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 plead 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 compassed 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, but 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 fenced 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 hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
He has kindled his wrath against me
and counts me as his adversary.
and counts me as his adversary.
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
“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 verily 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 familiar 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.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for 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 gave me no answer; I intreated 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, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
Even young children despise me;
when I rise they talk against me.
when I rise they talk against me.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake 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 inward friends abhorred 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 bone cleaveth 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, O 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 that my words were now written! oh that they were printed 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 they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in 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; though my reins be consumed within me.
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?