Job 19 · Clearspring

Job: My Redeemer Lives

¹Then Job answered and said,+ ²How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?+ ³These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.+ ⁴And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.+ ⁵If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:+ ⁶Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.+ ⁷Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.+ ⁸He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.+ ⁹He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.+ ¹⁰He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.+ ¹¹He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.+ ¹²His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.+ ¹³He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.+ ¹⁴My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.+ ¹⁵They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.+ ¹⁶I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.+ ¹⁷My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.+ ¹⁸Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.+ ¹⁹All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.+ ²⁰My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.+ ²¹Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.+ ²²Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?+ ²³Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!+ ²⁴That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!+ ²⁵For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:+ ²⁶And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:+ ²⁷Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.+ ²⁸But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?+ ²⁹Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.+

Job: My Redeemer Lives

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