1 T hen Job answered and said,

2 H ow long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

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

4 A nd be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.

5 I f indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

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

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

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

9 H e hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

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

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

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

13 H e hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

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

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

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

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

18 E ven young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

19 A ll my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

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

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

22 W hy do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

23 O h 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 for ever!

25 B ut 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, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

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

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