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| [1]Then Job answered and said, |
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| [2]How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? |
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| [3]These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. |
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| [4]And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remaineth with myself. |
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| [5]If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: |
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| [6]Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath encompassed me with his net. |
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| [7]Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. |
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| [8]He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. |
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| [9]He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. |
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| [10]He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope hath he removed like a tree. |
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| [11]He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me to him as one of his enemies. |
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| [12]His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tabernacle. |
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| [13]He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance are verily estranged from me. |
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| [14]My kinsmen have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. |
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| [15]They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. |
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| [16]I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth. |
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| [17]My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own body. |
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| [18]Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me. |
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| [19]All my intimate friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. |
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| [20]My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. |
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| [21]Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. |
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| [22]Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? |
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| [23]Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! |
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| [24]That they were graven with an iron pen in lead, in the rock for ever! |
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| [25]For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he will stand at the latter day upon the earth: |
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| [26]And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: |
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| [27]Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. |
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| [28]But ye would say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? |
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| [29]Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. |
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