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Job Trusts in His Redeemer
Then Job answered and said:
Then Job answered and said:
Job Replies: 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 you torment me
and break me in pieces with words?
and break me in pieces with words?
These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
are you not ashamed to wrong me?
are you not ashamed to wrong me?
And if indeed I have erred,
My error remains with me.
My error remains with me.
And even if it be true that I have erred,
my error remains with myself.
my error remains with myself.
If indeed you exalt yourselves against me,
And plead my disgrace against me,
And plead my disgrace against me,
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me
and make my disgrace an argument against me,
and make my disgrace an argument against me,
Know then that God has wronged me,
And has surrounded me with His net.
And has surrounded me with His net.
know then that God has put me in the wrong
and closed his net about me.
and closed his net about me.
Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered;
I call for help, but there is no justice.
I call for help, but there is no justice.
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass,
and he has set darkness upon my paths.
and he has set darkness upon my paths.
He has stripped me of my glory,
And taken the crown from my head.
And taken the crown from my head.
He has stripped from me my glory
and taken the crown from my head.
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 breaks me down on every side, and I am gone,
and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
and my hope has he pulled up 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 has kindled his wrath against me
and counts me as his adversary.
and counts me as his adversary.
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.
“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 has put my brothers far from me,
and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
My relatives have failed,
And my close friends have forgotten me.
And my close friends have forgotten me.
My relatives have failed me,
my close friends have forgotten me.
my close 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.
The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
I call my servant, but he gives no answer;
I beg him with my mouth.
I beg him with my mouth.
I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;
I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.
I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.
My breath is strange to my wife,
and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.
and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.
Even young children despise me;
I arise, and they speak against me.
I arise, and they speak against me.
Even young children despise me;
when I rise they talk against me.
when I rise they talk 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 intimate friends abhor me,
and those whom I loved have turned against me.
and those whom I loved have 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 bones stick 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.
“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 mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has touched me!
for the hand of God has 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 you, like God, pursue me?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
Why are you 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 written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
That they were engraved on a rock
With an iron pen and lead, forever!
With an iron pen and lead, forever!
Oh that with an iron pen and lead
they were engraved in the rock forever!
they were engraved in the rock forever!
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;
whom I shall see for myself,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints within me!
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints 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,