• Job Feels Insulted

  • 1 Then Job responded,
  • 2 “How long will you torment me And crush me with words?
  • 3 “These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.
  • 4 “Even if I have truly done wrong, My error stays with me.
  • 5 “If indeed you exalt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,
  • 6 Know then that God has wronged me And has surrounded me with His net.

  • Everything Is Against Him

  • 7 “Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.
  • 8 “He has blocked 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 considered me as His enemy.
  • 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 have completely turned away from me.
  • 14 “My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
  • 15 “Those who live in my house and my servant women 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 his favor with my mouth.
  • 17 “My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
  • 18 “Even young children despise me; I stand up and they speak against me.
  • 19 “All my associates loathe 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, you friends of mine, For the hand of God has struck me.
  • 22 “Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

  • Job Says My Redeemer Lives

  • 23 “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were recorded in a book!
  • 24 “That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
  • 25 “Yet as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last, He will take His stand on the earth.
  • 26 “Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I will see God,
  • 27 Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself, And whom my eyes will see, and not another. My heart faints within me!
  • 28 “If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’ And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’
  • 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.”