John 8:48-59

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Before Abraham Was, I Am

⁴⁸The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and ^(A)have a demon?” ⁴⁹Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but ^(B)I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. ⁵⁰Yet ^(C)I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge. ⁵¹Truly, truly, ^(D)I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never ^(E)see death.” ⁵²The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! ^(F)Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet ^(G)you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never ^(H)taste death.’ ⁵³^(I)Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?” ⁵⁴Jesus answered, ^(J)“If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. ^(K)It is my Father who glorifies me, ^(L)of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’^[a] ⁵⁵But ^(M)you have not known him. ^(N)I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be ^(O)a liar ^(P)like you, but I do know him and I keep his word. ⁵⁶^(Q)Your father Abraham ^(R)rejoiced ^(S)that he would see my day. ^(T)He saw it and was glad.” ⁵⁷So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”^[b] ⁵⁸Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, ^(U)I am.” ⁵⁹So ^(V)they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

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Footnotes

John 8:54 Some manuscripts your God
John 8:57 Some manuscripts has Abraham seen you?

Job 7

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Job Continues: My Life Has No Hope

7 “Has not man ^(A)a hard service on earth,
    and are not his ^(B)days like the days of a hired hand?
²Like a slave who longs for ^(C)the shadow,
    and like ^(D)a hired hand who looks for his ^(E)wages,
³so I am allotted months of ^(F)emptiness,
    ^(G)and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
⁴^(H)When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’
    But the night is long,
    and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
⁵My flesh is clothed with ^(I)worms and ^(J)dirt;
    my skin hardens, then ^(K)breaks out afresh.
⁶My days are ^(L)swifter than ^(M)a weaver's shuttle
    and come to their end without hope.

⁷“Remember that my life is a ^(N)breath;
    my eye will never again see good.
⁸^(O)The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more;
    while your eyes are on me, ^(P)I shall be gone.
⁹As ^(Q)the cloud fades and vanishes,
    so he who ^(R)goes down to Sheol does not come up;
¹⁰he ^(S)returns no more to his house,
    nor does his ^(T)place know him anymore.

¹¹“Therefore I will not ^(U)restrain my mouth;
    I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
    I will ^(V)complain in ^(W)the bitterness of my soul.
¹²Am I the sea, or ^(X)a sea monster,
    that you set a guard over me?
¹³^(Y)When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
    my couch will ease my complaint,’
¹⁴then you scare me with dreams
    and terrify me with visions,
¹⁵so that I would choose strangling
    and death rather than my ^(Z)bones.
¹⁶I ^(AA)loathe my life; I would not live forever.
    ^(AB)Leave me alone, for my days are ^(AC)a breath.
¹⁷^(AD)What is man, that you make so much of him,
    and that you set your heart on him,
¹⁸^(AE)visit him every morning
    and ^(AF)test him every moment?
¹⁹How long will you not ^(AG)look away from me,
    nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
²⁰If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind?
    Why have you made me ^(AH)your mark?
    Why have I become a burden to you?
²¹Why do you not pardon my transgression
    and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in ^(AI)the earth;
    you will ^(AJ)seek me, ^(AK)but I shall not be.”