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Job Feels Insulted

¹ Then Job 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 done wrong,
My error stays with me.

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

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

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)blocked 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 have completely turned away from me.

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

¹⁵ "Those who live in my house and my servant women 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 his favor with my mouth.

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

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

¹⁹ "All ^(F1)my ^(C1)associates loathe 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, you friends of mine,
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)recorded in a book!

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

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

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

²⁷ Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself,
And whom my eyes will see, and not another.
My ^(F1)heart ^(C1)faints ^(F2)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."