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Job’s Sixth Speech: A Response to Bildad
Then Job spoke again:
Then Job spoke again:
Job: My Redeemer Lives
And Job answered and said,
And Job answered and said,
“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?
How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
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.
These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.
Even if I have sinned,
that is my concern, not yours.
that is my concern, not yours.
And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
You think you’re better than I am,
using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,
Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.
“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me.
I protest, but there is no justice.
I protest, but there is no justice.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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 hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.
and removed the crown from my head.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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 breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.
His fury burns against me;
he counts me as an enemy.
he counts me as an enemy.
And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.
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.
His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.
“My relatives stay far away,
and my friends have turned against me.
and my friends have turned against me.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
My family is gone,
and my close friends have forgotten me.
and my close friends have forgotten me.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
My servants and maids consider me a stranger.
I am like a foreigner to them.
I am like a foreigner to them.
The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
When I call my servant, he doesn’t come;
I have to plead with him!
I have to plead with him!
I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.
My breath is repulsive to my wife.
I am rejected by my own family.
I am rejected by my own family.
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 stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.
When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.
Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
My close friends detest me.
Those I loved have turned against me.
Those I loved have turned against me.
All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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.
My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
for the hand of God has struck me.
for the hand of God has struck me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.
Must you also persecute me, like God does?
Haven’t you chewed me up enough?
Haven’t you chewed me up enough?
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
“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,
Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!
carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead,
engraved forever in the rock.
engraved forever in the rock.
That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
“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 [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;
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!
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: -- my reins are consumed within me.
“How dare you go on persecuting me,
saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?
saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?
If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,