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Job Feels Insulted

¹ Then Job answered and said,

² "How long will you torment and exasperate me
And crush me with words?

³ "These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me and harden your hearts against me.

⁴ "And if it were true that I have erred,
My error would remain with me and I would be conscious of it.

⁵ "If indeed you braggarts ^(C1)vaunt and magnify yourselves over me
And prove my disgrace (humiliation) to me,

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

Everything Is Against Him

⁷ "Behold, ^(C1)I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not heard;
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 set ^(C2)darkness upon my paths.

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

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

¹¹ "He has also ^(C1)kindled His wrath like a fire against me
And He ^(C2)considers and counts me as one of His adversaries.

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

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

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

¹⁵ "Those who live temporarily 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 words.

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

¹⁸ "Even young children despise me;
When I get up, they speak against me.

¹⁹ "All the ^(C1)men of my council hate me;
Those I love have turned against me.

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

²¹ "Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the ^(C1)hand of God has touched me.

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

Job Says, "My Redeemer Lives"

²³ "Oh, that the words I now speak were written!
Oh, that they were ^(C1)recorded in a scroll!

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

²⁵ "For I know that ^(C1)my Redeemer and Vindicator lives,
And at the last He will take His stand upon the earth. ^(VR1)

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

²⁷ Whom I, even I, will see for myself,
And my eyes will see Him and not another!
My heart ^(C1)faints within me.

²⁸ "If you say, 'How shall we continue to ^(C1)persecute him?'
And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find since we claim the root of these afflictions is found in him?'

²⁹ "Then beware and be afraid of ^(C1)the sword of divine vengeance for yourselves,
For wrathful are the punishments of that sword,
So that you may know ^(C2)there is judgment."