1Then Job answered and said, 2How long will you{+} vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words? 3These ten times you{+} have reproached me: You{+} are not ashamed that you{+} deal harshly with me. 4And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with myself. 5If indeed you{+} will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach; 6Know now that God has subverted me [in my cause], And has surrounded me with his net. 7Look, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice. 8He has walled up my way that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths. 9He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head. 10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope he has plucked up like a tree. 11He has also kindled his wrath against me, And he counts me to him as [one of] his adversaries. 12His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent. 13He has put my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. 14My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15Those who dwell in my house, and my female slaves, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. 16I call to my slave, and he gives me no answer, [Though] I plead to him with my mouth. 17My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the sons of my own mother. 18Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me. 19All my familiar friends are disgusted by me, And they whom I loved are turned against me. 20My bone sticks 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, O you{+} my companions; For the hand of God has touched me. 22Why do you{+} persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh? 23Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! 24That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever! 25But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, And at last he will stand up on the earth: 26And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh will I see God; 27Whom I, even I, will see, on my side, And my eyes will behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed inside me. 28If you{+} say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me; 29Be{+} afraid of the sword: For wrath [brings] the punishments of the sword, That you{+} may know there is a judgment.