Readings for Lent and Easter
21 “Have pity on me, my friends!
Have pity on me because Eloah’s hand has struck me down.
22 Why do you pursue me as El does?
Why are you never satisfied with my flesh?
Job’s Confidence in His Defender
23 “I wish now my words were written.
I wish they were inscribed on a scroll.
24 I wish they were forever engraved on a rock
with an iron stylus and lead.[a]
25 But I know that my Go’el lives,
and afterwards, he will rise on the earth.
26 Even after my skin has been stripped off my body,
I will see Eloah in my own flesh.
27 I will see him with my own eyes,
not with someone else’s.
My heart fails inside me!
Job Warns His Friends
28 “You say,
‘We will persecute him!
The root of the problem is found in him.’
29 Fear death,
because your anger is punishable by death.
Then you will know there is a judge.”
The Names of God Bible (without notes) © 2011 by Baker Publishing Group.