1Then Job answered:
2“How long will you torment me and crush…
3Ten times now you have reproached me; you…
4Even if I have truly gone astray, my…
5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me…
6then understand that it is God who has…
7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no…
8He has blocked my way so I cannot…
9He has stripped me of my honor and…
10He tears me down on every side until…
11His anger burns against me, and He counts…
12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp…
13He has removed my brothers from me; my…
14My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends…
15My guests and maidservants count me as a…
16I call for my servant, but he does…
17My breath is repulsive to my wife, and…
18Even little boys scorn me; when I appear,…
19All my best friends despise me, and those…
20My skin and flesh cling to my bones;…
21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,…
22Why do you persecute me as God does?…
23I wish that my words were recorded and…
24by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled…
25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and…
26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet…
27I will see Him for myself; my eyes…
28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since…
29then you should fear the sword yourselves, because…
