Job: My Redeemer Lives 1 Brenton Then Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 Brenton How long will ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus. BSB BSB: “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
3 Brenton Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me. BSB BSB: Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
4 Brenton Yea verily, I have erred in truth, (but the error abides with myself) in having spoken words which it was not right to speak ; and my words err, and are unseasonable. BSB BSB: Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
5 Brenton But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach. BSB BSB: If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
6 Brenton Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled me , and has raised his bulwark against me. BSB BSB: then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
7 Brenton Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: or I will cry out, but there is nowhere judgment. BSB BSB: Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
8 Brenton I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face. BSB BSB: He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
9 Brenton And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head. BSB BSB: He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10 Brenton He has torn me round about, and I am gone: and he has cut off my hope like a tree. BSB BSB: He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
11 Brenton And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy. BSB BSB: His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
12 Brenton His troops also came upon me with one accord, liers in wait compassed my ways. BSB BSB: His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
13 Brenton My brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognised strangers rather than me: and my friends have become pitiless. BSB BSB: He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
14 Brenton My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name, have forgotten me. BSB BSB: My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
15 Brenton As for my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before them.BSB BSB: My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
16 Brenton I called my servant, and he hearkened not; and my mouth intreated him . BSB BSB: I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
17 Brenton And I besought my wife, and earnestly intreated the sons of my concubines. BSB BSB: My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
18 Brenton But they rejected me for ever; whenever I rise up, they speak against me. BSB BSB: Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
19 Brenton They that saw me abhorred me: the very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me. BSB BSB: All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
20 Brenton My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in my teeth. BSB BSB: My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 Brenton Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me. BSB BSB: Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
22 Brenton Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord does , and are not satisfied with my flesh? BSB BSB: Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23 Brenton For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a book for ever, BSB BSB: I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
24 Brenton with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks! BSB BSB: by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
25 Brenton For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me, BSB BSB: But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
26 Brenton and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings : for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;BSB BSB: Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
27 Brenton which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom. BSB BSB: I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!
28 Brenton But if ye shall also say, What shall we say before him, and so find the root of the matter in him? BSB BSB: If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
29 Brenton Do ye also beware of deceit: for wrath will come upon transgressors; and then shall they know where their substance is. BSB BSB: then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
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