| 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 uGod, 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. |
