| 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 make1 yourselves strange to me.
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| 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine 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 compassed me with his net.
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| 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong,2 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 mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
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| 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
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| 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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| 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
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| 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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| 15 They that dwell in mine 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 intreated him with my mouth.
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| 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine3 own body.
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| 18 Yea, young4 children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
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| 19 All my5 inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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| 20 My bone cleaveth to6 my skin and to my flesh, and I am 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 ¶ Oh7 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 and lead in the rock for ever!
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| 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
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| 26 And8 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 mine eyes shall behold, and not another;9 though10 my reins be consumed within11 me.
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| 28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing12 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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