1 T hen Job answered:

Then Job answered and said,

2 H ow long will you vex and torment me and break me in pieces with words?

How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

3 T hese ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange.

These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

4 A nd if it were true that I have erred, my error would remain with me.

And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.

5 I f indeed you magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach and humiliation,

If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

6 K now that God has overthrown and put me in the wrong and has closed His net about me.

Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net.

7 B ehold, I cry out, Violence! but I am not heard; I cry aloud for help, but there is no justice.

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

8 H e has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness upon my paths.

He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

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

He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

10 H e has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope has He pulled up like a tree.

He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

11 H e has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His adversaries.

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.

12 H is troops come together and cast up their way and siege works against me and encamp round about my tent.

His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

13 H e has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

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

My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

15 T hose who live temporarily in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

16 I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer, though I beseech him with words.

I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, Though I entreat him with my mouth.

17 I am repulsive to my wife and loathsome to the children of my own mother.

My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

18 E ven young children despise me; when I get up, they speak against me.

Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

19 A ll the men of my council and my familiar friends abhor me; those whom I loved are turned against me.

All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

20 M y bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin or gums of my teeth.

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

21 H ave pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

22 W hy do you, as if you were God, pursue and persecute me? why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

23 O h, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

24 T hat with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock forever!

That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!

25 F or I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last He will stand upon the earth.

But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:

26 A nd after my skin, even this body, has been destroyed, then from my flesh or without it I shall see God,

And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

27 W hom I, even I, shall see for myself and on my side! And my eyes shall behold Him, and not as a stranger! My heart pines away and is consumed within me.

Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

28 I f you say, How we will pursue him! that the root of all these is found in me,

If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

29 T hen beware and be afraid of the sword, for wrathful are the punishments of that sword, that you may know there is a judgment.

Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.