Job: My Redeemer Lives 1 ULT And Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 ULT “Until when will you afflict my soul and crush me with words? BSB BSB: “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
3 ULT These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed, you mistreat me. BSB BSB: Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
4 ULT And even{ if} truly I have erred, my error remains with me. BSB BSB: Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
5 ULT If truly you will exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me, BSB BSB: If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
6 ULT then know that God has wronged me, and his net has closed around me. BSB BSB: then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
7 ULT Behold, I cry,‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call 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 ULT He has walled up my way and I do not pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. BSB BSB: He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
9 ULT He has stripped my glory from upon me, and he has removed the crown of my head. BSB BSB: He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10 ULT He has broken me down on every side, and I have gone away, and he has removed 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 ULT And he has kindled his nose against me, and he regards me as an enemy to him. BSB BSB: His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
12 ULT His troops come together, and they build up their ramps against me, and they encamp around my tent. BSB BSB: His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
13 ULT He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances indeed have turned away from me. BSB BSB: He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
14 ULT My kin have forsaken me, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. BSB BSB: My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
15 ULT Guests of my house and my female servants regard me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. BSB BSB: My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
16 ULT I call to my servant, but he does not answer; with my mouth I entreat him. BSB BSB: I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
17 ULT My breath is strange to my wife, though I was gracious to the sons of my womb. BSB BSB: My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
18 ULT Even young children despise me; let me arise, and they speak against me. BSB BSB: Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
19 ULT All of the friends of my counsel abhor me, and those I love have been turned against me. BSB BSB: All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
20 ULT My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have 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 ULT Pity me, pity me, you 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 ULT Why do you pursue me as God{ would}? And will you not be satisfied with my flesh? BSB BSB: Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23 ULT Who will give{ that} now my words will be written down? Who will give{ that} they will be inscribed on a scroll? BSB BSB: I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
24 ULT With a stylus of iron and{ with} lead may they be engraved on a rock forever! BSB BSB: by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
25 ULT But I know{ that} my redeemer lives, and{ that at} the last he will stand upon the dust, BSB BSB: But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
26 ULT and{ that} after my skin, they strike this off, yet from my flesh I will behold God, BSB BSB: Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
27 ULT whom I will behold for myself and my eyes will see, and not a stranger. My kidneys fail within my belly. 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 ULT If you say,‘How we will persecute him! For 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 ULT be afraid for yourselves of the face of the sword, for{ from} wrath{ is} the punishment of the sword, so that you will know 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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