Job: My Redeemer Lives 1 CPDV But Job answered by saying: BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 CPDV How long will you afflict my soul and wear me down with words? BSB BSB: “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
3 CPDV So, ten times you confound me and are not ashamed to oppress me. BSB BSB: Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
4 CPDV Now, of course, if I have been ignorant, my ignorance will be with me. BSB BSB: Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
5 CPDV But you have risen up against me, and you accuse me to my disgrace. BSB BSB: If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
6 CPDV At least now you should understand that God has not afflicted me with a balanced judgment, though he has encompassed me with his scourges. BSB BSB: then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
7 CPDV Behold, I will cry out, enduring violence, and no one will hear. I will announce loudly, but there is no one who may judge. BSB BSB: Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
8 CPDV He has hemmed in my path, and I cannot pass; he has added darkness to my difficult path. BSB BSB: He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
9 CPDV He has plundered me of my glory, and he has stolen the crown from my head. BSB BSB: He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10 CPDV He has destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and, like an uprooted tree, he has taken away my hope. BSB BSB: He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
11 CPDV His fury has raged against me, and in this way he has treated me like his enemy. BSB BSB: His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
12 CPDV His troops have gathered together, and they have made their way to me, and they have besieged my tabernacle all around. BSB BSB: His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
13 CPDV He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have withdrawn from me like strangers. BSB BSB: He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
14 CPDV My kinsmen have forsaken me, and those who knew me, have forgotten me. BSB BSB: My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
15 CPDV The inhabitants of my house and my maidservants treat me just as if I were a stranger, and I have been like a sojourner in their eyes. BSB BSB: My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
16 CPDV I called my servant, and he did not respond; I pleaded with him with my own mouth. BSB BSB: I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
17 CPDV My wife has shuddered at my breath, and I have begged the sons of my loins. BSB BSB: My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
18 CPDV Even the foolish have looked down on me, and, when I withdrew from them, they spoke ill of me. BSB BSB: Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
19 CPDV Those who were sometimes my counselors, treat me like an abomination; and he whom I valued the most has turned against me. BSB BSB: All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
20 CPDV Since my flesh has been consumed, my bone adheres to my skin, and only my lips have been left around my teeth. BSB BSB: My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 CPDV Have mercy on me, have compassion on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord has touched me. BSB BSB: Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
22 CPDV Why do you pursue me just as God does, and satiate yourselves with my flesh? BSB BSB: Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23 CPDV Who will grant to me that my words may be written down? Who will grant to me that they may be inscribed in a book, BSB BSB: I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
24 CPDV with an iron pen and a plate of lead, or else be carved in stone? BSB BSB: by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
25 CPDV For I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise out of the earth. BSB BSB: But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
26 CPDV And I will be enveloped again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God. BSB BSB: Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
27 CPDV It is he whom I myself will see, and he whom my eyes will behold, and no other. This, my hope, has taken rest 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 CPDV Why then do you now say: “Let us pursue him, and let us find a basis to speak against him?” BSB BSB: If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
29 CPDV So then, flee from the face of the sword, for the sword is the avenger of iniquities; but know this: there is to be a judgment. 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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