Job 19:1-7
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Job Replies: I Know That My Vindicator Lives
19 Then Job answered:
2 “How long will you torment me
and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
are you not ashamed to wrong me?
4 And even if it is true that I have erred,
my error remains with me.(A)
5 If indeed you magnify yourselves against me
and make my humiliation an argument against me,(B)
6 know then that God has put me in the wrong
and closed his net around me.(C)
7 Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered;
I call aloud, but there is no justice.(D)
Job 19:14-27
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14 My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
15 the guests in my house have forgotten me;
my female servants count me as a stranger;
I have become an alien in their eyes.(A)
16 I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;
I must myself plead with him.
17 My breath is repulsive to my wife;
I am loathsome to my own family.
18 Even young children despise me;
when I rise, they talk against me.(B)
19 All my intimate friends abhor me,
and those whom I love have turned against me.(C)
20 My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh,
and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.(D)
21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has touched me!(E)
22 Why do you, like God, pursue me,
never satisfied with my flesh?(F)
23 “O that my words were written down!
O that they were inscribed in a book!(G)
24 O that with an iron pen and with lead
they were engraved on a rock forever!(H)
25 For I know that my vindicator[a] lives
and that in the end he will stand upon the earth;(I)
26 and after my skin has been destroyed,
then in my flesh I shall see God,(J)
27 whom I shall see on my side,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints within me!(K)
Footnotes
- 19.25 Or redeemer
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