¹ And Job replied and said,

² How long will ye anguish my soul and break me in pieces with words?

³ These ten times ye have reproached me; are ye not ashamed to make yourselves strange to me?

⁴ And if indeed I have erred, my error shall remain with me.

⁵ If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me and reprove me of my reproach,

⁶ know now that God has overthrown me and has compassed me with his net.

⁷ 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 He has walled off my way and I shall not pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.

⁹ He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown [from] my head.

¹⁰ 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 He has kindled his wrath against me, and he counted me unto him as [one of] his enemies.

¹² His troops came together and raised up their way over me and encamp round about my tent.

¹³ He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are verily estranged from me.

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

¹⁵ Those that dwell in my house and my maids have counted me for a stranger; I was an alien in their sight.

¹⁶ I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

¹⁷ My spirit came to be strange to my wife, although I intreated her for the sons of my own body.

¹⁸ Even the young children despised me; as I arose, they spoke against me.

¹⁹ All my intimate friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved are turned against me.

²⁰ My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

²² Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ Oh, that my words were now written! Oh, that they were printed in a book!

²⁴ That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

²⁵ For I know [that] my redeemer lives and [that] he shall rise at the latter [day] over the dust;

²⁶ and afterward from this, my stricken skin and from my own flesh, I must see God:

²⁷ whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another, [though] my kidneys be consumed within me.

²⁸ But ye should say, Why should we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in me?

²⁹ 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.: