(KJV) Job 191

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⥃Job: My Redeemer Lives

[1] Then Job answered and said, [2] How long2 will ye vex3 my soul, and break me4 in pieces with words? [3] These ten times5 have ye reproached6 me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me7. [4] And be it indeed [that] I have erred8, mine9 error remaineth with myself. [5] If indeed ye will magnify10 [yourselves] against me, and plead11 against me my reproach: [6] Know now that God12 hath overthrown me, and hath compassed13 me with his net. [7] Behold, I cry14 out of wrong15, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment16. [8] He hath fenced17 up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set18 darkness in my paths. [9] He hath stripped19 me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head. [10] He hath destroyed20 me on every side, and I am gone21: and mine hope22 hath he removed like a tree. [11] He hath also kindled23 his wrath against me, and he counteth24 me unto him as [one of] his enemies. [12] His25 troops come together, and raise26 up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. [13] He hath put my brethren27 far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged28 from me. [14] My kinsfolk29 have failed, and my familiar30 friends have forgotten me. [15] They that dwell31 in mine house, and my maids, count me32 for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. [16] I called my servant33, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. [17] My breath34 is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s [sake] of mine own body35. [18] Yea36, young children37 despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. [19] All my inward friends38 abhorred me: and they whom39 I loved are turned against me. [20] My bone40 cleaveth to my skin and to41 my flesh, and I am42 escaped with the skin of my teeth. [21] Have pity43 upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand44 of God hath touched me. [22] Why do ye persecute45 me as God, and are not46 satisfied with my flesh? [23] Oh47 that my words48 were now written! oh that they were49 printed in a book! [24] That they were graven50 with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! [25] For I know51 [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall52 stand at the latter [day] upon the earth: [26] And [though53] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh54 shall I see God: [27] Whom I shall55 see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another56; [though] my reins be consumed within me57. [28] But ye should say, Why58 persecute we him, seeing59 the root of the matter is found in me60? [29] Be ye afraid61 of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, that ye may62 know [there is] a judgment.

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  1. Job 19:1, Job, complaining of his friends’ cruelty, shews there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty; Job 19:21, He craves pity; Job 19:23, He believes the resurrection. ↩

  2. Job 8:2, Job 18:2; Ps 13:1; Rev 6:10 ↩

  3. Job 27:2; Judg 16:16; Ps 6:2-3, Ps 42:10; 2Pet 2:7-8 ↩

  4. Ps 55:21, Ps 59:7, Ps 64:3; Prov 12:18, Prov 18:21; Jas 3:6-8 ↩

  5. Gen 31:7; Lev 26:26; Num 14:22; Neh 4:12; Dan 1:20 ↩

  6. Job 4:6-11, Job 5:3-4, Job 8:4-6, Job 11:3, Job 11:14, Job 15:4-6, Job 15:11-12, Job 18:4-21 ↩

  7. or, harden yourselves against me, Job 19:17; Gen 42:7; Ps 69:8 ↩

  8. Job 11:3-6 ↩

  9. 2Sam 24:17; Prov 9:12; Ezek 18:4; 2Cor 5:10; Gal 6:5 ↩

  10. Ps 35:26, Ps 38:16, Ps 41:11, Ps 55:12; Mic 7:8; Zeph 2:10; Zech 12:7 ↩

  11. 1Sam 1:6; Neh 1:3; Isa 4:1; Luke 1:25, Luke 13:2-4; John 9:2, John 9:34 ↩

  12. Job 7:20, Job 16:11-14; Ps 44:9-14, Ps 66:10-12 ↩

  13. Job 18:8-10; Lam 1:12-13; Ezek 12:13, Ezek 32:3; Hos 7:12 ↩

  14. Job 10:3, Job 10:15-17, Job 16:17-19, Job 21:27; Ps 22:2; Jer 20:8; Lam 3:8; Hab 1:2-3 ↩

  15. or, violence ↩

  16. Job 9:32, Job 13:15-23, Job 16:21, Job 23:3-7, Job 31:35-36, Job 34:5, Job 40:8 ↩

  17. Job 3:23; Ps 88:8; Lam 3:7, Lam 3:9; Hos 2:6 ↩

  18. Josh 24:7; Prov 4:19; Isa 50:10; Jer 13:16, Jer 23:12; John 8:12 ↩

  19. Job 29:7-14, Job 29:20-21, Job 30:1; Ps 49:16-17, Ps 89:44; Isa 61:6; Hos 9:11 ↩

  20. Job 1:13-19, Job 2:7; Ps 88:13-18; Lam 2:5-6; 2Cor 4:8-9 ↩

  21. Job 17:11; Ps 102:11 ↩

  22. Job 6:11, Job 8:13-18, Job 17:15, Job 24:20; Ps 37:35-36 ↩

  23. Deut 32:22; Ps 89:46, Ps 90:7 ↩

  24. Job 13:24, Job 16:9, Job 33:10; Lam 2:5 ↩

  25. Job 16:11; Isa 10:5-6, Isa 51:23 ↩

  26. Job 30:12 ↩

  27. Ps 31:11, Ps 38:11, Ps 69:8, Ps 69:20, Ps 88:8, Ps 88:18; Matt 26:56; 2Tim 4:16 ↩

  28. Job 6:21-23 ↩

  29. Ps 38:11; Prov 18:24; Mic 7:5-6; Matt 10:21 ↩

  30. 2Sam 16:23; Ps 55:12-14; Jer 20:10; John 13:18 ↩

  31. Job 19:16-19 ↩

  32. Job 31:31-32; Ps 123:3 ↩

  33. Job 1:15-16, Job 1:17, Job 1:19 ↩

  34. Job 2:9-10, Job 17:1 ↩

  35. Heb. belly ↩

  36. Job 30:1, Job 30:12; 2Kgs 2:23; Isa 3:5 ↩

  37. or, the wicked ↩

  38. Heb. the men of my secret, Ps 41:9, Ps 55:12-14, Ps 55:20 ↩

  39. Job 6:14-15; Ps 109:4-5; Luke 22:48 ↩

  40. Job 30:30, Job 33:19-22; Ps 22:14-17, Ps 32:3-4, Ps 38:3, Ps 102:3, Ps 102:5; Lam 4:8 ↩

  41. or, as ↩

  42. Job 2:4-6, Job 7:5; Lam 3:4, Lam 5:10 ↩

  43. Job 6:14; Rom 12:15; 1Cor 12:26; Heb 13:3 ↩

  44. Job 1:11, Job 2:5, Job 2:10, Job 6:4; Ps 38:2 ↩

  45. Job 10:16, Job 16:13-14; Ps 69:26 ↩

  46. Job 2:5, Job 31:31; Isa 51:23; Mic 3:3 ↩

  47. Heb. Who will give, etc ↩

  48. Job 31:35; Isa 8:1, Isa 30:8 ↩

  49. Rather, "Oh that they were described yuchakoo in a book, with an iron stile and lead! Were graven on a rock for ever!" Pliny observes, "At first men wrote on palm leaves, and afterwards on the bark or rind of other trees. In process of time, public monuments were written on rolls of lead (plumbeis voluminibus); and those of a private nature on linen books, or tables covered with wax." ↩

  50. Exod 28:11-12, Exod 28:21, Exod 32:16; Deut 27:2-3, Deut 27:8; Jer 17:1 ↩

  51. Job 33:23-24; Ps 19:14; Isa 54:5, Isa 59:20-21; Eph 1:7 ↩

  52. Gen 3:15, Gen 22:18; John 5:22-29; Jude 1:14 ↩

  53. etc. Or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God. Ps 17:15 ↩

  54. Ps 16:9, Ps 16:11; Matt 5:8; 1Cor 13:12, 1Cor 15:53; Phil 3:21; 1John 3:2; Rev 1:7 ↩

  55. Num 24:17; Isa 26:19 ↩

  56. Heb. a stranger, though my reins, etc. or, my reins within me are consumed with earnest desire for that day. Ps 119:81; Phil 1:23 ↩

  57. Heb. in my bosom ↩

  58. Job 19:22; Ps 69:26 ↩

  59. etc. or, and what root of matter is found in me, the root. 1Kgs 14:13 ↩

  60. Instead of bee, "in me," bo, "in him," is the reading of more than 100 manuscripts. ↩

  61. Job 13:7-11; Rom 13:1-4 ↩

  62. Ps 58:10-11; Eccl 11:9; Matt 7:1-2; Jas 4:11-12 ↩