Job: My Redeemer Lives 1 WBS Then Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 WBS How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? BSB BSB: “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
3 WBS These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. BSB BSB: Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
4 WBS And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remaineth with myself. BSB BSB: Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
5 WBS If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: BSB BSB: If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
6 WBS Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath encompassed me with his net. BSB BSB: then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
7 WBS Behold, I cry out of wrong, but 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 WBS He hath fenced 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 WBS 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 WBS He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope hath he removed like a tree. BSB BSB: He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
11 WBS He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me to him as one of his enemies. BSB BSB: His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
12 WBS His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tabernacle. BSB BSB: His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
13 WBS He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance are verily estranged from me. BSB BSB: He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
14 WBS My kinsmen have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. BSB BSB: My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
15 WBS They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for 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 WBS I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; 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 WBS My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own body. BSB BSB: My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
18 WBS Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me. BSB BSB: Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
19 WBS All my intimate friends abhorred 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 WBS My bone cleaveth 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 WBS Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O 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 WBS 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 WBS Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! BSB BSB: I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
24 WBS That they were graven with an iron pen in lead, in the rock for ever! BSB BSB: by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
25 WBS For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he will stand at the latter day upon the earth: BSB BSB: But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
26 WBS And though after my skin worms destroy this body , yet in my flesh shall I see God: BSB BSB: Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
27 WBS Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be 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 WBS But ye would say, Why persecute we him, seeing 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 WBS Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, 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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