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  • Job Feels Insulted

    Then Job responded,
  • Job Trusts in His Redeemer

    Then Job answered and said:
  • “How long will you torment me
    And crush me with words?
  • “How long will you torment my soul,
    And break me in pieces with words?
  • “These ten times you have insulted me;
    You are not ashamed to wrong me.
  • These ten times you have [a]reproached me;
    You are not ashamed that you [b]have wronged me.
  • “Even if I have truly erred,
    My error lodges with me.
  • And if indeed I have erred,
    My error remains with me.
  • “If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me
    And prove my disgrace to me,
  • If indeed you exalt yourselves against me,
    And plead my disgrace against me,
  • Know then that God has wronged me
    And has closed His net around me.
  • Know then that God has wronged me,
    And has surrounded me with His net.

  • Everything Is against Him

    “Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
    I shout for help, but there is no justice.
  • “If I cry out concerning [c]wrong, I am not heard.
    If I cry aloud, there is no justice.
  • “He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
    And He has put darkness on my paths.
  • He has [d]fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass;
    And He has set darkness in my paths.
  • “He has stripped my honor from me
    And removed the crown from my head.
  • He has stripped me of my glory,
    And taken the crown from my head.
  • “He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
    And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
  • He breaks me down on every side,
    And I am gone;
    My hope He has uprooted like a tree.
  • “He has also kindled His anger against me
    And considered me as His enemy.
  • He has also kindled His wrath against me,
    And He counts me as one of His enemies.
  • “His troops come together,
    And build up their way against me
    And camp around my tent.
  • His troops come together
    And build up their road against me;
    They encamp all around my tent.
  • “He has removed my brothers far from me,
    And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
  • “He has removed my brothers far from me,
    And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
  • “My relatives have failed,
    And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
  • My relatives have failed,
    And my close friends have forgotten me.
  • “Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
    I am a foreigner in their sight.
  • Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants,
    Count me as a stranger;
    I am an alien in their sight.
  • “I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
    I have to implore him with my mouth.
  • I call my servant, but he gives no answer;
    I beg him with my mouth.
  • “My breath is offensive to my wife,
    And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
  • My breath is offensive to my wife,
    And I am [e]repulsive to the children of my own body.
  • “Even young children despise me;
    I rise up and they speak against me.
  • Even young children despise me;
    I arise, and they speak against me.
  • “All my associates abhor me,
    And those I love have turned against me.
  • All my close friends abhor me,
    And those whom I love have turned against me.
  • “My bone clings to my skin and my flesh,
    And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
  • My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,
    And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
  • “Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
    For the hand of God has struck me.
  • “Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,
    For the hand of God has struck me!
  • “Why do you persecute me as God does,
    And are not satisfied with my flesh?
  • Why do you persecute me as God does,
    And are not satisfied with my flesh?

  • Job Says, “My Redeemer Lives”

    “Oh that my words were written!
    Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
  • “Oh, that my words were written!
    Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
  • “That with an iron stylus and lead
    They were engraved in the rock forever!
  • That they were engraved on a rock
    With an iron pen and lead, forever!
  • “As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
    And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
  • For I know that my Redeemer lives,
    And He shall stand at last on the earth;
  • “Even after my skin is destroyed,
    Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
  • And after my skin is [f]destroyed, this I know,
    That in my flesh I shall see God,
  • Whom I myself shall behold,
    And whom my eyes will see and not another.
    My heart faints within me!
  • Whom I shall see for myself,
    And my eyes shall behold, and not another.
    How my [g]heart yearns within me!
  • “If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’
    And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’
  • If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’ —
    Since the root of the matter is found in me,
  • Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves,
    For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
    So that you may know there is judgment.”
  • Be afraid of the sword for yourselves;
    For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
    That you may know there is a judgment.”

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