## My Redeemer Lives 

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Then Job answered and said, 

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"How long will you torment my soul And crush me with words? 

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These ten times you have dishonored me; You are not ashamed _that_ you wrong me. 

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Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me. 

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If truly you magnify yourselves against me And argue my disgrace to me, 

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Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me. 

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"Behold, I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice. 

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He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths. 

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He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head. 

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He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree. 

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He has also kindled His anger against me And counted me as His adversary. 

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His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent. 

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"He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. 

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My relatives have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. 

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Those who sojourn in my house and my maidservants count me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight. 

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I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth. 

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My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers. 

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Even young children reject me; I rise up, and they speak against me. 

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All the men of my counsel abhor me, And those I love have turned against me. 

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My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped _only_ by the skin of my teeth. 

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Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has smitten me. 

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Why do you persecute me as God _does_, And are not satisfied with my flesh? 

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"Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! 

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That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever! 

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As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will rise up over the dust _of this world_. 

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Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall behold God, 

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Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me! 

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If you say, 'How shall we persecute him?' 'And the root of the matter is found in him?' 

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_Then_ be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath _brings_ the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment."