Job: My Redeemer Lives 1 UEB Then Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 UEB "How long will you make me suffer and break me into pieces with words? BSB BSB: “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
3 UEB These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you have treated me harshly. BSB BSB: Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
4 UEB If it is indeed true that I have erred, my error remains my own concern. BSB BSB: Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
5 UEB If indeed you will exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me, BSB BSB: If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
6 UEB then you should know that God has done wrong to me and has caught me in his net. BSB BSB: then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
7 UEB See, I cry out, "Violence!" but I get no answer. I call out for help, but there is no justice. BSB BSB: Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
8 UEB He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my path. BSB BSB: He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
9 UEB He has stripped me of my glory, and he has taken the crown from my head. BSB BSB: He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10 UEB He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; he has pulled up 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 UEB He has also kindled his wrath against me; he regards me as one of his adversaries. BSB BSB: His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
12 UEB His troops come on together; they cast up siege mounds against me and encamp around my tent. BSB BSB: His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
13 UEB He has put my brothers far from me; my acquaintances are wholly alienated from me. BSB BSB: He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
14 UEB My kinsfolk have failed me; my close friends have forgotten me. BSB BSB: My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
15 UEB Those who once stayed as guests in my house and my female servants regard 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 UEB I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer although I entreat 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 UEB My breath is offensive to my wife; I am even disgusting to those who were born from my mother's womb. BSB BSB: My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
18 UEB Even young children despise me; if I rise to speak, they speak against me. BSB BSB: Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
19 UEB All my familiar friends abhor me; those whom I love have turned against me. BSB BSB: All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
20 UEB My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh; I survive only by 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 UEB Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, my friends, for the hand of God has touched me. BSB BSB: Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
22 UEB Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you ever be satisfied with my flesh? BSB BSB: Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23 UEB Oh, that my words were now written down! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book! BSB BSB: I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
24 UEB Oh, that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! BSB BSB: by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
25 UEB But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at last he will stand on the earth; BSB BSB: But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
26 UEB after my skin, that is, this body, is destroyed, then in my flesh I will see God. BSB BSB: Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
27 UEB I will see him with my own eyes—I, and not someone else. My heart fails 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 UEB If you say, 'How we will persecute him! The root of his troubles lies in him,' BSB BSB: If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
29 UEB then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so that you 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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