Job: My Redeemer Lives

1And Job will answer and say,

2How long will ye, grieve my soul, and crush me with words?

3These ten times ye will reproach me: ye will not be ashamed, ye will injure me.

4If indeed I erred my error will lodge with me.

5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach:

6Know ye now that God subverted me; and he folded his net about me.

7Behold, I shall cry violence, and shall I not be answered: I shall cry for help, and no judgment.

8He walled up my path and I shall not pass, and he will set darkness upon my beaten paths.

9And he put off from me my honor, and he removed the crown of my head.

10He will lay me waste round about, and I shall go: and he will remove my hope as a tree.

11And he will kindle his anger against me, and he will reckon me to him as his enemy.

12His troops shall come together and raise up their way against me, and they will encamp round about to my tent.

13He removed my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance truly turned aside from me.

14My kindred ceased, and they acquainted with me forgot me.

15They sojourning in my house and my maids, mill reckon me for a stranger: I was a foreigner in their eyes.

16I called to my servant and he will not answer; I shall entreat him with my mouth.

17My spirit was loathsome to my wife, and I entreated to the sons of my belly.

18Also children rejected me; I shall arise, and they will speak against me.

19All the men of my intimacy will abhor me, and those I loved were turned against me.

20My bone cleaved to my skin and to my flesh, and I shall escape with the skin of my teeth.

21Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, for the hand of God touched upon me.

22Why will ye pursue me as God, and will ye not be satisfied from my flesh?

23Who will give now, and my words shall be written? who will give and they shall be delineated in a book?

24They shall be cut in the rock with a style of iron and lead, forever.

25And I knew he redeeming me lived, and at last he shall rise up upon the dust:

26And after they destroyed my skin, this, and from my flesh I shall see God:

27Which I shall see for myself, and mine eyes beheld, and not a stranger: my reins were finished in my bosom.

28For ye shall say, Why shall we pursue after him and the root of the word was found in me?

29And fear ye to yourselves, from the face of the sword? for wrath the iniquities of the sword, so that ye shall know there is judgment.