• My Redeemer Lives

  • 1 Then Job answered and said,
  • 2 “How long will you torment my soul And crush me with words?
  • 3 “These ten times you have dishonored me; You are not ashamed that you wrong me.
  • 4 “Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.
  • 5 “If truly you magnify yourselves against me And argue my disgrace to me,
  • 6 Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.
  • 7 “Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.
  • 8 “He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.
  • 9 “He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head.
  • 10 “He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
  • 11 “He has also kindled His anger against me And counted me as His adversary.
  • 12 “His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.
  • 13 “He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
  • 14 “My relatives have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
  • 15 “Those who sojourn in my house and my maidservants count 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 my mouth.
  • 17 “My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
  • 18 “Even young children reject me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
  • 19 “All the men of my counsel abhor me, And those I love have turned against me.
  • 20 “My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
  • 21 “Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has smitten me.
  • 22 “Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
  • 23 “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
  • 24 “That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
  • 25 “As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will rise up over the dust of this world.
  • 26 “Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall behold God,
  • 27 Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!
  • 28 “If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’ ‘And the root of the matter is found in him?’
  • 29 “Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment.”