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¹ Then Iob answered, and sayd, ² How long will yee vexe my soule, and breake me in pieces with words? ³ These tenne times haue ye reproched me: you are not ashamed that you make your selues strange to me. ⁴ And be it indeed that I haue erred, mine errour remaineth with my selfe. ⁵ If indeed yee will magnifie your selues against me, and plead against me my reproch: ⁶ Know now that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net. ⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloude, but there is no iudgement.

⁸ Hee hath fenced vp my way that I cannot passe; and hee hath set darkenesse in my pathes. ⁹ Hee hath stript me of my glory, and taken the crowne from my head. ¹⁰ He hath destroyed me on euery side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he remooued like a tree. ¹¹ He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and hee counteth me vnto him as one of his enemies. ¹² His troupes come together, and raise vp their way against me, and encampe round about my tabernacle. ¹³ Hee hath put my brethren farre from me, and mine acquaintance are verely estranged from me. ¹⁴ My kinsefolke haue failed, and my familiar friends haue forgotten me. ¹⁵ They that dwell in mine house, and my maides count me for a stranger: I am an aliant in their sight. ¹⁶ I called my seruant, and he gaue me no answere: I intreated him with my mouth. ¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the childrens sake of mine owne body. ¹⁸ Yea, yong children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. ¹⁹ All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loued, are turned against me. ²⁰ My bone cleaueth to my skinne, and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skinne of my teeth. ²¹ Haue pity vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. ²² Why doe ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ Oh that my wordes were now written, oh that they were printed in a booke! ²⁴ That they were grauen with an iron pen and lead, in the rocke for euer. ²⁵ For I know that my Redeemer liueth, and that he shall stand at the latter day, vpon the earth: ²⁶ And though after my skin, wormes destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: ²⁷ Whom I shal see for my selfe, and mine eyes shall beholde, and not another, though my reines bee consumed within me. ²⁸ But ye should say, Why persecute we him? seeing the root of the matter is found in me. ²⁹ Bee ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that yee may know there is a iudgement.