^[1]  Then Job answered and said,

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^[2]  How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

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^[3]  These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

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^[4]  And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.

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^[5]  If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

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^[6]  Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net.

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^[7]  Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

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^[8]  He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

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^[9]  He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

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

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^[11]  He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.

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^[12]  His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

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^[13]  He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

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^[14]  My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

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^[15]  They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

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^[16]  I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, ThoughI entreat him with my mouth.

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^[17]  My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

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^[18]  Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

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^[19]  All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

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^[20]  My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

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^[21]  Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

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^[22]  Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

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^[23]  Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

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^[24]  That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!

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^[25]  But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:

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^[26]  And after my skin, eventhisbody, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

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^[27]  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.

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^[28]  If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

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^[29]  Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrathbringeththe punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.

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