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| 1 Then responded Job, and said:– |
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| 2 How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words? |
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| 3 These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me. |
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| 4 And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error. |
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| 5 If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach. |
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| 6 Know, then, that, God, hath overthrown me, and, within his net, enclosed me. |
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| 7 Lo! I cry–out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication; |
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| 8 My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest; |
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| 9 My glory–from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head; |
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| 10 He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away–like a tree–my hope; |
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| 11 Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries; |
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| 12 Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent; |
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| 13 My Brethren–from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me; |
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| 14 Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me; |
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| 15 Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes; |
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| 16 To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him; |
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| 17 My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother; |
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| 18 Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me; |
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| 19 All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me; |
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| 20 Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth. |
Skin of my teeth – Teeth--membrane or skin. R5994:4
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| 21 Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me! |
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| 22 Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied? |
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| 23 Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed: |
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| 24 That, with a stylus of iron and [with] lead, for all time–in the rock, they could be graven! |
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| 25 But, I, know that, my redeemer, liveth, and, as the Last over [my] dust, will he arise; |
That my redeemer – Gaal, the one who sets free by payment. E438
He shall stand – Job prophetically recorded his hope of a coming Redeemer. SM524. 2
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| 26 And, though, after my skin is struck off, this [followeth], yet, apart from my flesh, shall I see GOD: |
Shall I see God – I shall yet praise the Lord in the flesh and in health. R3040:2
I shall yet receive his favor and learn what he means by these experiences, these afflictions. R5333:4
See his hand. See his works. "All flesh shall see the salvation of God." (Luke 3:6) R3040:2
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| 27 Whom, I myself, shall see, on my side, and, mine own eyes, [shall] have looked upon, and not those of a stranger. Exhausted are my deepest desires in my bosom! |
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| 28 Surely ye should say–Why should we persecute him? seeing, the root of the matter, is found in me. |
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| 29 Be ye afraid–on your part–of the face of the sword, because, wrath, [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, to the end ye may know the Almighty. |
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