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¹ Iob aunswered, and saide:² How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?³ Lo, ten times haue ye reproched me, and are not ashamed, but haue laughed me to scorne.⁴ Be it that I haue erred in deede, myne errour then remaineth with my selfe.⁵ But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me, and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me:⁶ Know this then, that it is God which hath ouerthrowe me, and hath compassed me with his net.⁷ If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be heard: and if I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me.

⁸ He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes.⁹ He hath spoyled me of myne honour, and taken the crowne away from my head.¹⁰ He hath destroyed me on euery side and I am gone: my hope hath he taken away as a tree pluckt vp by the roote.¹¹ His wrath is kindled against me, he taketh me as though I were his enemie.¹² His men of warre come together, which made their way ouer me, and besieged my dwelling rounde about.¹³ He hath put my brethren farre away from me, and myne acquaintaunce are also become straungers vnto me.¹⁴ Myne owne kinsefolkes haue forsaken me, and my best acquainted haue forgotten me.¹⁵ The seruauntes and maydens of myne owne house toke me for a straunger, and I am become as an aliaunt in their sight.¹⁶ I called my seruaunt, and he gaue me no aunswere: [no though] I prayed him with my mouth.¹⁷ Myne owne wyfe might not abyde my breath, though I prayed her for the children sake of myne owne body.¹⁸ Yea, the young men despised me, and when I rose they spake euill vpon me.¹⁹ All my most familiers abhorred me: and they whom I loued best, are turned against me.²⁰ My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my fleshe, onely there is left me the skinne about my teeth.²¹ Haue pitie vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friendes, for the hande of God hath touched me.²² Why do ye persecute me as God [doth] and are not satisfied with my fleshe?

²³ O that my wordes were now written, O that they were put in a booke,²⁴ And grauen with an iron penne in leade, or in stone, to continue.²⁵ For I am sure that my redeemer saueth, and he shall rayse vp at the latter day them that lye in the dust.²⁶ And though after my skinne the [wormes] destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my fleshe:²⁷ Whom I my selfe shall see, and myne eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my raines are consumed within me.²⁸ But ye saide, why is he persecuted? and there was a deepe matter in me.²⁹ But beware of the sworde: for the sword wylbe auenged of wickednesse, and be sure that there is a iudgement.