1Then Job answered,
2“How long will you torment me, and crush…
3You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t…
4If it is true that I have erred,…
5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,…
6know now that God has subverted me, and…
7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I…
8He has walled up my way so that…
9He has stripped me of my glory, and…
10He has broken me down on every side,…
11He has also kindled his wrath against me.…
12His troops come on together, build a siege…
13“He has put my brothers far from me.…
14My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends…
15Those who dwell in my house and my…
16I call to my servant, and he gives…
17My breath is offensive to my wife. I…
18Even young children despise me. If I arise,…
19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom…
20My bones stick to my skin and to…
21“Have pity on me. Have pity on me,…
22Why do you persecute me as God, and…
23“Oh that my words were now written! Oh…
24That with an iron pen and lead they…
25But as for me, I know that my…
26After my skin is destroyed, then I will…
27whom I, even I, will see on my…
28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’…
29be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings…
