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AUGUST 14
9 He has stripped me of my glory,
And taken the crown from my head.
10 He breaks me down on every side,
And I am gone; 19:20 skin of my teeth. This was the origin of
My hope He has uprooted like a tree. a common slang phrase,referring to skin that is
He has also kindled His wrath against
11 thin and fragile.The idea is that he had escaped
me, death by a very slim margin. The loss of all his
And He counts me as one of His family, as well as the abuse of his friends was
enemies. added to the terror of God-forsakeness which
His troops come together
12 had gripped him.
And build up their road against me;
They encamp all around my tent. 19:23–29 At the point of Job’s greatest
despair, his faith appeared at its highest as he
13 “He has removed my brothers far from confidently affirmed that God was his
me, Redeemer. He wanted that confidence in the
And my acquaintances are completely record for all to know (vv. 23,24). Job wished
estranged from me. that the activities of his life were put into
14 My relatives have failed, words and “inscribed in granite,” so all would
And my close friends have forgotten know that he had not sinned to the magni-
me. tude of his suffering. God granted his prayer.
15 Those who dwell in my house, and my God was his Redeemer (Ex.6:6;Ps.19:14;72:14;
maidservants, Is.43:14;47:4;49:26;Jer.50:34),who would vin-
Count me as a stranger; dicate him in that last day of judgment on the
earth when justice was finally done (Jer.
I am an alien in their sight. 12:1–3; John 5:25,29; Rev. 20:11–15).
16 I call my servant, but he gives no
answer;
I beg him with my mouth. 28 If you should say, ‘How shall we
My breath is offensive to my wife, persecute him?’—
17
And I am repulsive to the children of Since the root of the matter is found in
my own body. me,
18 Even young children despise me; 29 Be afraid of the sword for yourselves;
I arise, and they speak against me. For wrath brings the punishment of the
19 All my close friends abhor me, sword,
And those whom I love have turned That you may know there is a
against me. judgment.”
20 My bone clings to my skin and to my
flesh, Then Zophar the Naamathite answered
And I have escaped by the skin of my 20 and said:
teeth. 2 “Therefore my anxious thoughts make
me answer,
21 “Have pity on me, have pity on me,
O you my friends, 3 Because of the turmoil within me.
For the hand of God has struck me! I have heard the rebuke that
22 Why do you persecute me as God does, reproaches me,
And are not satisfied with my flesh? And the spirit of my understanding
causes me to answer.
“Oh, that my words were written! 4 “Do you not know this of old,
23
Oh, that they were inscribed in a book! Since man was placed on earth,
That they were engraved on a rock 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is
24
With an iron pen and lead, forever! short,
For I know that my Redeemer lives, And the joy of the hypocrite is but for a
25
And He shall stand at last on the earth; moment?
26 And after my skin is destroyed, this I 6 Though his haughtiness mounts up to
know, the heavens,
That in my flesh I shall see God, And his head reaches to the clouds,
27 Whom I shall see for myself, 7 Yet he will perish forever like his own
And my eyes shall behold, and not refuse;
another. Those who have seen him will say,
How my heart yearns within me! ‘Where is he?’

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