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¹ Then Job answered, ² "How long will you torment me, And crush me with words? ³ You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me. ⁴ If it is true that I have erred, My error remains with myself. ⁵ If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach; ⁶ Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net. ⁷ "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

⁸ He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths. ⁹ He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree. ¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries. ¹² His troops come on together, Build a siege ramp against me, And encamp around my tent. ¹³ "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. ¹⁴ My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵ Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. ¹⁶ I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer; I beg him with my mouth. ¹⁷ My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. ¹⁸ Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. ¹⁹ All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me. ²⁰ My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. ²¹ "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me. ²² Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! ²⁴ That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever! ²⁵ But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. ²⁶ After my skin is destroyed, Then in my flesh shall I see God, ²⁷ Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me. ²⁸ If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' Because the root of the matter is found in me, ²⁹ Be afraid of the sword, For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment."