Job: My Redeemer Lives 1 DBY And Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 DBY How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words? BSB BSB: “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
3 DBY These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me. BSB BSB: Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
4 DBY And be it that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. BSB BSB: Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
5 DBY If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach, BSB BSB: If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
6 DBY Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net. BSB BSB: then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
7 DBY Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. BSB BSB: Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
8 DBY He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. BSB BSB: He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
9 DBY He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. BSB BSB: He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10 DBY He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree. BSB BSB: He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
11 DBY And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies. BSB BSB: His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
12 DBY His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent. BSB BSB: His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
13 DBY He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me. BSB BSB: He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
14 DBY My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me. BSB BSB: My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
15 DBY The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. BSB BSB: My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
16 DBY I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth. BSB BSB: I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
17 DBY My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my mother's womb. BSB BSB: My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
18 DBY Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me. BSB BSB: Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
19 DBY All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me. BSB BSB: All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
20 DBY My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. BSB BSB: My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 DBY Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. BSB BSB: Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
22 DBY Why do ye persecute me as God, 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 DBY Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book! BSB BSB: I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
24 DBY That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever! BSB BSB: by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
25 DBY And as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth; BSB BSB: But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
26 DBY And if after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see God; BSB BSB: Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
27 DBY Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: — my reins are consumed within me. 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 DBY If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me, BSB BSB: If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
29 DBY Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is 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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