1And Job answered and said, 2How long will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words? 3[And] this, ten times you have blamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me. 4And [if] indeed I have erred, my error remains with me. 5If indeed you magnify yourself against me, and plead against me my misery, 6know now that God has overthrown me, and His net has closed on me. 7Behold, I cry out, Violence! And I am not answered. I cry aloud, but there is no justice. 8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths. 9He has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head. 10He has broken me on every side, and I am gone, and He has uprooted my hope like a tree. 11He has also kindled His wrath against me, and to Himself He counts me as His enemy. 12His troops come together and raise up their way against me, and camp around my tent. 13He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have truly turned away from me. 14My people have fallen away, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15Those who dwell in my house, and my slave-girls, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. 16I called my servant, and he gave no answer; I must beg him with my mouth. 17My breath is hated by my wife, and I must beg to the sons of my [mother's] womb. 18Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me. 19All the men of my counsel detest me, even this one I loved has turned against me. 20My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. 21Have pity on me! Have pity on me, my friends! For the hand of God has touched me. 22Why do you, like God, persecute me and are not satisfied with my flesh? 23Oh 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! 25For I know [that] my Redeemer lives, and He shall rise on the earth at the last; 26and even after they corrupt my skin, yet this: in my flesh I shall see God, 27whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not a stranger's; [though] My heart be exhausted in my bosom. 28For you ought to say, Why do we persecute him, since the root of the matter is found in me? 29Fear for yourselves because of the sword; for wrath [brings] the punishments of the sword, so that you may know [there is] a judgment.