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[1]And Job answered and said,
[2]How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
[3]These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.
[4]And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
[5]If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,
[6]Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.
[7]Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
[8]He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
[9]He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
[10]He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.
[11]And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.
[12]His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.
[13]He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
[14]My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
[15]The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
[16]I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.
[17]My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.
[18]Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
[19]All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
[20]My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
[21]Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.
[22]Why do ye persecute me as ùGod, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
[23]Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!
[24]That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
[25]And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;
[26]And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;
[27]Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: -- my reins are consumed within me.
[28]If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,
[29]Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment.
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