Job: My Redeemer Lives 1 DRA Then Job answered, and said: BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 DRA How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words? BSB BSB: “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
3 DRA Behold, these 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 DRA For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me. BSB BSB: Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
5 DRA But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches. BSB BSB: If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
6 DRA At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges. BSB BSB: then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
7 DRA Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge. BSB BSB: Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
8 DRA He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness. BSB BSB: He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
9 DRA He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head. BSB BSB: He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10 DRA He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up. BSB BSB: He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
11 DRA His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy. BSB BSB: His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
12 DRA His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about. BSB BSB: His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
13 DRA He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. BSB BSB: He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
14 DRA My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me. BSB BSB: My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
15 DRA They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes. BSB BSB: My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
16 DRA I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated 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 DRA My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb. BSB BSB: My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
18 DRA Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me. BSB BSB: Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
19 DRA They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is turned against me. BSB BSB: All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
20 DRA The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth. BSB BSB: My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 DRA Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me. BSB BSB: Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
22 DRA Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh? BSB BSB: Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23 DRA Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book? BSB BSB: I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
24 DRA With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone. BSB BSB: by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
25 DRA For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall 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 DRA And I shall be clothed 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 DRA Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up 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 DRA Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him? BSB BSB: If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
29 DRA Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is 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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