- 1. Iob aunswered, and saide:
- 2. How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?
- 3. Lo, ten times haue ye reproched me, and are not ashamed, but haue laughed me to scorne.
- 4. Be it that I haue erred in deede, myne errour then remaineth with my selfe.
- 5. But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me, and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me:
- 6. Know this then, that it is God which hath ouerthrowe me, and hath compassed me with his net.
- 7. If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be heard: and if I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me.
- 8. He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes.
- 9. He hath spoyled me of myne honour, and taken the crowne away from my head.
- 10. He hath destroyed me on euery side and I am gone: my hope hath he taken away as a tree pluckt vp by the roote.
- 11. His wrath is kindled against me, he taketh me as though I were his enemie.
- 12. His men of warre come together, which made their way ouer me, and besieged my dwelling rounde about.
- 13. He hath put my brethren farre away from me, and myne acquaintaunce are also become straungers vnto me.
- 14. Myne owne kinsefolkes haue forsaken me, and my best acquainted haue forgotten me.
- 15. The seruauntes and maydens of myne owne house toke me for a straunger, and I am become as an aliaunt in their sight.
- 16. I called my seruaunt, and he gaue me no aunswere: [no though] I prayed him with my mouth.
- 17. Myne owne wyfe might not abyde my breath, though I prayed her for the children sake of myne owne body.
- 18. Yea, the young men despised me, and when I rose they spake euill vpon me.
- 19. All my most familiers abhorred me: and they whom I loued best, are turned against me.
- 20. My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my fleshe, onely there is left me the skinne about my teeth.
- 21. Haue pitie vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friendes, for the hande of God hath touched me.
- 22. Why do ye persecute me as God [doth] and are not satisfied with my fleshe?
- 23. O that my wordes were now written, O that they were put in a booke,
- 24. And grauen with an iron penne in leade, or in stone, to continue.
- 25. For I am sure that my redeemer saueth, and he shall rayse vp at the latter day them that lye in the dust.
- 26. And though after my skinne the [wormes] destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my fleshe:
- 27. Whom I my selfe shall see, and myne eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my raines are consumed within me.
- 28. But ye saide, why is he persecuted? and there was a deepe matter in me.
- 29. But beware of the sworde: for the sword wylbe auenged of wickednesse, and be sure that there is a iudgement.
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