1 A nd Job answered and said,

2 H ow long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?

3 T hese ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.

4 A nd be it I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

5 I f indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,

6 K now now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.

7 B ehold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

8 H e hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

9 H e hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

10 H e breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.

11 A nd he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.

12 H is troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.

13 H e hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.

14 M y kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.

15 T he 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 M y breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my womb.

18 E ven young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.

19 A ll my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.

20 M y bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

21 H ave pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.

22 W hy do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

23 O h would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!

24 T hat with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!

25 A nd me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;

26 A nd after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;

27 W hom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another:—my reins are consumed within me.

28 I f ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,

29 B e ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment.