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² "How long will you torment me
and crush me with your words?
³ These ten times you have been reproaching me;
you are not ashamed to attack me!
⁴ But even if it were true that I have erred,
my error remains solely my concern!
⁵ If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me
and plead my disgrace against me,
⁶ know then that God has wronged me
and encircled me with his net.

⁷ "If I cry out, ‘Violence!'
I receive no answer;
I cry for help,
but there is no justice.
⁸ He has blocked my way so I cannot pass,
and has set darkness over my paths.
⁹ He has stripped me of my honor
and has taken the crown off my head.
¹⁰ He tears me down on every side until I perish;
he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.
¹¹ Thus his anger burns against me,
and he considers me among his enemies.
¹² His troops advance together;
they throw up a siege ramp against me,
and they camp around my tent.

¹³ "He has put my relatives far from me;
my acquaintances only turn away from me.
¹⁴ My kinsmen have failed me;
my friends have forgotten me.
¹⁵ My guests and my servant girls
consider me a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their eyes.
¹⁶ I summon my servant, but he does not respond,
even though I implore him with my own mouth.
¹⁷ My breath is repulsive to my wife;
I am loathsome to my brothers.
¹⁸ Even youngsters have scorned me;
when I get up, they scoff at me.
¹⁹ All my closest friends detest me;
and those whom I love have turned against me.
²⁰ My bones stick to my skin and my flesh;
I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.
²¹ Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me,
for the hand of God has struck me.
²² Why do you pursue me like God does?
Will you never be satiated with my flesh?

²³ "O that my words were written down,
O that they were written on a scroll,
²⁴ that with an iron chisel and with lead
they were engraved in a rock forever!
²⁵ As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
and that as the last
he will stand upon the earth.
²⁶ And after my skin has been destroyed,
yet in my flesh I will see God,
²⁷ whom I will see for myself,
and whom my own eyes will behold,
and not another.
My heart grows faint within me.
²⁸ If you say, ‘How we will pursue him,
since the root of the trouble is found in him!'
²⁹ Fear the sword yourselves,
for wrath brings the punishment by the sword,
so that you may know
that there is judgment."