¹ Then Job answered and said, ² How long will you curse my soul, and break me in pieces with words? ³ These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me. ⁴ And be it indeed that I have wandered, my error remains with myself. ⁵ If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my rebuke ⁶ Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net. ⁷ See, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. ⁸ He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths. ⁹ He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope has he removed like a tree. ¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to him as one of his enemies. ¹² His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. ¹³ He has put my brothers far from me, and mine acquaintance are truly estranged from me. ¹⁴ My kinsfolk have fsuffered, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵ Those dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. ¹⁶ I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. ¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, even though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. ¹⁸ Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me. ¹⁹ All my inward friends abhorred me: and they who I loved are turned against me. ²⁰ My bone splits to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. ²¹ Have pity on me, have pity on me, O 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 printed in a book! ²⁴ That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! ²⁵ For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he will stand at the latter day on the earth ²⁶ And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh will I see God ²⁷ Who I will see for myself, and my eyes will see, and not another; though my innards be consumed within me. ²⁸ But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? ²⁹ Be you afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment .