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