My Redeemer Lives

My Redeemer Lives

      19     ⁱAll my close friends abhor me,

And those whom I love have turned against me.

      20     ^jMy bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,

And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

      21     “Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,

For the hand of God has struck me!

      22     Why do you ^kpersecute 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 they were engraved on a rock

With an iron pen and lead, forever!

      25     For I know that my Redeemer lives,

And He shall stand at last on the earth; (Job 19:19-25)^[1]

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ⁱ Ps. 38:11; 55:12, 13

^j Job 16:8; 33:21; Ps. 102:5; Lam. 4:8

^k Job 13:24, 25; 16:11; 19:6; Ps. 69:26

^[1] The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982. Print.