1But Job answered, and said,
2How long will ye vex my soul, and torment me with words?
3Ye have now ten times reproached me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward me.
4And though I had indeed erred, mine error remaineth with me.
5But indeed if ye will advance yourselves against me, and rebuke me for my reproach,
6Know now, that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7Behold, I cry out of violence, but I have none answer: I cry, but there is no judgment.
8He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9He hath spoiled me of mine honor, and taken the crown away from mine head.
10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and he hath removed mine hope like a tree.
11And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth me as one of his enemies.
12His armies came together, and made their way upon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
13He hath removed my brethren far from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers unto me.
14My neighbors have forsaken me, and my familiars have forgotten me.
15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids took me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.
16I called my servant, but he would not answer, though I prayed him with my mouth.
17My breath was strange unto my wife, though I prayed her for the children’s sake of mine own body.
18The wicked also despised me, and when I rose, they spake against me.
19All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whom I loved, are turned against me.
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21Have pity upon me: have pity upon me, (O ye my friends) for the hand of God hath touched me.
22Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were written even in a book,
24And graven with an iron pen in lead, or in stone forever!
25For I am sure that my Redeemer liveth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
27Whom I myself shall see, and mine eyes shall behold, and none other for me, though my reins are consumed within me.
28But ye said, Why is he persecuted? And there was a deep matter in me.
29Be ye afraid of the sword: for the sword will be avenged of wickedness, that ye may know that there is a judgment.