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Job Feels Insulted

¹ Then Job ^(F1)responded,

² "How long will you torment ^(F1)me
And crush me with words?

³ "These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.

⁴ "Even if I have truly erred,
My error lodges with me.

⁵ "If indeed you ^(C1)vaunt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,

⁶ Know then that ^(C1)God has wronged me
And has closed ^(C2)His net around me.

Everything Is against Him

⁷ "Behold, ^(C1)I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.

⁸ "He has ^(C1)walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put ^(C2)darkness on my paths.

⁹ "He has ^(C1)stripped my honor from me
And removed the ^(C2)crown from my head.

¹⁰ "He ^(C1)breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my ^(C2)hope ^(C3)like a tree.

¹¹ "He has also ^(C1)kindled His anger against me
And ^(C2)considered me as His enemy.

¹² "His ^(C1)troops come together,
And ^(C2)build up their ^(F1)way against me
And camp around my tent.

¹³ "He has ^(C1)removed my brothers far from me,
And my ^(C2)acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

¹⁴ "My relatives have failed,
And my ^(C1)intimate friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵ "Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight.

¹⁶ "I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore him with my mouth.

¹⁷ "My breath is ^(F1)offensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

¹⁸ "Even young children despise me;
I rise up and they speak against me.

¹⁹ "All ^(F1)my ^(C1)associates abhor me,
And those I love have turned against me.

²⁰ "My ^(C1)bone clings to my skin and my flesh,
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

²¹ "Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
For the ^(C1)hand of God has struck me.

²² "Why do you ^(C1)persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job Says, "My Redeemer Lives"

²³ "Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were ^(C1)inscribed in a book!

²⁴ "That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!

²⁵ "As for me, I know that ^(C1)my ^(F1)Redeemer lives,
And ^(F2)at the last He will take His stand on the ^(F3)earth.

²⁶ "Even after my skin ^(F1)is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall ^(C1)see God;

²⁷ Whom I ^(F1)myself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My ^(F2)heart ^(C1)faints ^(F3)within me!

²⁸ "If you say, 'How shall we ^(C1)persecute him?'
And '^(F1)What pretext for a case against him can we find?'

²⁹ "Then be afraid of ^(C1)the sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know ^(C2)there is judgment."