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¹ And Job answered and said:² Until when will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words?³ This ten times you have shamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.⁴ And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.⁵ If truly you magnify yourself against me, and plead my misery against me,⁶ know now that God has overthrown me and His net has closed on me.⁷ Behold, I cry out, Violence! And I am not answered; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

⁸ He has fenced up my path so that I cannot pass; and He has set darkness on my paths.⁹ He has stripped me of my honor, and He has taken the crown from my head.¹⁰ He has broken me on every side, and I go; and He has uprooted my hope like a tree.¹¹ And also His wrath glows against me, and to Himself He counts me as His foe.¹² His troops come together and they heap up their way against me; and they camp around my tent.¹³ He has put my brothers from me; and ones knowing me are truly alienated from me.¹⁴ My near ones have fallen away, and ones knowing me have forgotten me.¹⁵ The tenants in my house, even my slave-girls, count me as a foreigner; I am an alien in their eyes.¹⁶ I called my servant, but he does not answer; I must beg him with my mouth.¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, and I must beg to the sons of my mother's womb.¹⁸ Even young children despise me; I rise, and they speak against me.¹⁹ All the men of my counsel detest me; even this one I loved has turned against me.²⁰ My bone clings on my skin and on my flesh; and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.²¹ Pity me! Pity me, you my friends! For the hand of God has touched me.²² Why do you pursue me, as God does , and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were engraved in a book!²⁴ Oh that they were cut with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!²⁵ For I know my Redeemer is living, and He shall rise on the earth at the last;²⁶ and after my skin has been struck off from my flesh, yet this, I shall see God,²⁷ whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and no stranger; though my reins be exhausted in my bosom.²⁸ For you may say, Why do we persecute him? And the root of the matter is found in me.²⁹ Fear for yourselves because of the sword; for fury brings punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.