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Job: My Redeemer Lives
Then Job answered and said,
Then Job answered and said,
Job’s Sixth Speech: A Response to Bildad
Then Job spoke again:
Then Job spoke again:
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
“How long will you torture me?
How long will you try to crush me with your words?
How long will you try to crush me with your words?
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
You have already insulted me ten times.
You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.
You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
Even if I have sinned,
that is my concern, not yours.
that is my concern, not yours.
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
You think you’re better than I am,
using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me.
I protest, but there is no justice.
I protest, but there is no justice.
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
God has blocked my way so I cannot move.
He has plunged my path into darkness.
He has plunged my path into darkness.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.
and removed the crown from my head.
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished.
He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.
He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
His fury burns against me;
he counts me as an enemy.
he counts me as an enemy.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
His troops advance.
They build up roads to attack me.
They camp all around my tent.
They build up roads to attack me.
They camp all around my tent.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
“My relatives stay far away,
and my friends have turned against me.
and my friends have turned against me.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
My family is gone,
and my close friends have forgotten me.
and my close friends have forgotten me.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
My servants and maids consider me a stranger.
I am like a foreigner to them.
I am like a foreigner to them.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
When I call my servant, he doesn’t come;
I have to plead with him!
I have to plead with him!
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
My breath is repulsive to my wife.
I am rejected by my own family.
I am rejected by my own family.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Even young children despise me.
When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.
When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
My close friends detest me.
Those I loved have turned against me.
Those I loved have turned against me.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
I have been reduced to skin and bones
and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.
and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
for the hand of God has struck me.
for the hand of God has struck me.
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Must you also persecute me, like God does?
Haven’t you chewed me up enough?
Haven’t you chewed me up enough?
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
“Oh, that my words could be recorded.
Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,
Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead,
engraved forever in the rock.
engraved forever in the rock.
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
and he will stand upon the earth at last.
and he will stand upon the earth at last.
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
I will see him for myself.
Yes, I will see him with my own eyes.
I am overwhelmed at the thought!
Yes, I will see him with my own eyes.
I am overwhelmed at the thought!
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
“How dare you go on persecuting me,
saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?
saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?