- 1. ¶ THEN Job answered and said,
- 2. How long will you grieve my soul, and make me sick with words?
- 3. For behold, these ten times you have rebuked me; and yet you are not ashamed that you make me sad.
- 4. If indeed I have erred, my error remains with myself.
- 5. If you have justly magnified yourselves against me, rebuked me, and reproached me,
- 6. Know then that God has condemned me, and spread his net over me.
- 7. If I howl, no one answers me; and if I complain, there is no one to avenge me.
- 8. ¶ He has fenced up my ways so 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 no more; and my hope has he removed like a piece of tree.
- 11. He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me as his enemy.
- 12. His messengers have come together against me; they debated their ways against me, and encamped round about my tent.
- 13. My brothers are far off from me, and my acquaintances have deserted me.
- 14. My kinsfolk have failed me, and my familiar friends have forsaken me.
- 15. They that dwell in my house, and my maids, consider me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
- 16. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth and implored him.
- 17. I have become a stranger to my wife, and have implored the children of my own body.
- 18. Yea, even the wicked despise me; when I rise, they speak against me.
- 19. All my counselors abhor me; even my friends have turned against me.
- 20. My skin and my flesh cleave to my bones, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- 21. Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has been against me.
- 22. Why do you also persecute me like God, and you are not satisfied with the hurt of my flesh?
- 23. ¶ Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a scroll!
- 24. That they were engraved with an iron pen on lead or in the rock for ever!
- 25. For I know that my Saviour lives, and at the end he will reveal himself upon the earth;
- 26. Although devouring worms have covered my skin and my flesh,
- 27. Yet, if my eyes shall see God, then my heart also will see the light; but now my body is consumed.
- 28. For you will say, Why did we persecute him? For a good report will follow me and vindicate me.
- 29. Spare yourselves from the sword; for the wrath of sinners is a sword; for you shall yet know that there is judgment.
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