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Job Trusts in His Redeemer
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 my soul,
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 have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
And if indeed I have erred,
My error remains with me.
My error remains with me.
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
If indeed you exalt yourselves against me,
And plead my disgrace against me,
And plead my disgrace against me,
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Know then that God has wronged me,
And has surrounded me with His net.
And has surrounded me with His net.
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.
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
He has stripped me of 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;
My hope He has uprooted like a tree.
And I am gone;
My hope He has uprooted 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 also kindled His wrath against me,
And He counts me as one of His enemies.
And He counts me as one of His enemies.
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
His troops come together
And build up their road against me;
They encamp all around my tent.
And build up their road against me;
They encamp all around my tent.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
“He has removed my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
My relatives have failed,
And my close friends have forgotten me.
And my close friends have forgotten me.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants,
Count me as a stranger;
I am an alien in their sight.
Count me as a stranger;
I am an alien in their sight.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
I call my servant, but he gives no answer;
I beg him with my mouth.
I beg him with my mouth.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
Even young children despise me;
I arise, and they speak against me.
I arise, and they speak against me.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
All my close friends abhor me,
And those whom I love have turned against me.
And those whom I love have turned against me.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
My bone clings 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 pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has struck me!
For the hand of God has struck me!
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Why do you persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?
And are 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!
That they were engraved on a rock
With an iron pen and lead, forever!
With an iron pen and lead, forever!
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth;
And He shall stand at last on the earth;
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 mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’ —
Since the root of the matter is found in me,
Since the root of the matter is found in me,
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?