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¹ And Job answered and said,

² How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?

³ These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.

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

⁵ If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,

⁶ Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.

⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

⁸ He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

⁹ He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰ He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.

¹¹ And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.

¹² His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.

¹³ He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.

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

¹⁵ The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

¹⁶ I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.

¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.

¹⁸ Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.

¹⁹ All my intimate friends abhor me, and they 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, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.

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

²³ Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!

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

²⁵ And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;

²⁶ And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;

²⁷ Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another:—my reins are consumed within me.

²⁸ If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,

²⁹ Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment.