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¹ Bvt Iob answered, and said,² Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?³ Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.⁴ And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.⁵ But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,⁶ Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.⁷ Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.

⁸ Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.⁹ Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.¹⁰ He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree.¹¹ And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.¹² His armies came together, & made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.¹³ He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.¹⁴ My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.¹⁵ They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.¹⁶ I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.¹⁷ My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.¹⁸ The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.¹⁹ All my secret friends abhorred me, & they whome I loued, are turned against me.²⁰ My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.²¹ Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.²² Why do ye persecute me, as God? & are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,²⁴ And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!²⁵ For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.²⁶ And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.²⁷ Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.²⁸ But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.²⁹ Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.