1 T hen Job answered:

¶ And Job replied and said,

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

How long will ye anguish 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 ye have reproached me; are ye not ashamed to make yourselves strange to me?

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

And if indeed I have erred, my error shall remain with me.

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 reprove me of 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 has overthrown me and has 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 shall cry out that I have been wronged, and I shall not be heard; I shall cry aloud, and there shall be no judgment.

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

¶ He has walled off my way and I shall not pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.

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

He has 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 has pulled me up on every side, and I am dried up; he has caused my hope to pass like an uprooted tree.

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

He has kindled his wrath against me, and he counted me unto him as one of his enemies.

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

His troops came together and raised up their way over 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 has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are verily 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.

Those that dwell in my house and my maids have counted me for a stranger; I was an alien in their sight.

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

I called my slave, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

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

My spirit came to be strange to my wife, although I intreated her for the sons of my own body.

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

Even the young children despised me; as I arose, they spoke 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 intimate friends abhorred me; and those 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 bones cleave 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 has 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 printed in a book!

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

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead 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.

For I know that my redeemer lives and that he shall rise at the latter day over the dust;

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

and afterward from this, my stricken skin and from my own flesh, I must 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 shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another, though my kidneys be consumed within me.

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

But ye should say, Why should we persecute him, seeing 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 the wrath of the sword comes because of the iniquities, that ye may know there is a judgment.