Job Replies: My Redeemer Lives
1Then Job answered and said:
2“How long will you torment me
and break me in pieces with words?
3These wten times you have cast reproach upon me;
are you not ashamed to wrong me?
4And even if it be true that I have erred,
my error remains with myself.
5If indeed you xmagnify yourselves against me
and make my disgrace an argument against me,
6know then that God has yput me in the wrong
and closed his net about me.
7Behold, I zcry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered;
I call for help, but there is no justice.
8He has awalled up my way, so that I cannot pass,
and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9He has bstripped from me my glory
and taken the ccrown from my head.
10He breaks me down on every side, and I dam gone,
and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
11He has kindled his wrath against me
and ecounts me as his adversary.
12His ftroops come on together;
they have gcast up their siege ramp1 against me
and encamp around my tent.
13“He has put my hbrothers far from me,
and ithose who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
14My relatives jhave failed me,
my close kfriends have forgotten me.
15The guests lin my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
16I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;
I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.
17My breath is strange to my mwife,
and I am a stench to the children of nmy own mother.
18Even young ochildren despise me;
when I rise they talk against me.
19All my pintimate friends abhor me,
and those whom I loved have turned against me.
20My qbones stick to my skin and to my flesh,
and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has rtouched me!
22Why do you, like God, spursue me?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
23“Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were tinscribed in a book!
24Oh that with an iron upen and lead
they were engraved in the rock forever!
25For I vknow that my wRedeemer lives,
and at the last he will stand upon the xearth.2
26And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
yet in3 my flesh I shall ysee God,
27whom I shall see for myself,
and my eyes shall behold, and not zanother.
My heart afaints within me!
28If you say, ‘How we will spursue him!’
and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’4
29be afraid of the sword,
for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
that you may know there is ba judgment.”
The Prophesied Kingdom — Part One
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