Then Job 1responded
,
"How long
will you torment
1me And crush
me with words
?
"These ten
times
you have insulted
me; You are not ashamed
to wrong
me.
"Even if I have truly
erred
, My error
lodges
with me.
"If indeed
you avaunt
yourselves against
me And prove
my disgrace
to me,
Know then
that aGod
has wronged
me And has closed
bHis net
around
me.
"Behold, aI cry
, `Violence
!' but I get
no
answer
; I shout
for help
, but there
is no
justice
.
"He has awalled up my way
so that I cannot
pass
, And He has put
bdarkness
on my paths
.
"He has astripped my honor
from me And removed
the bcrown
from my head
.
"He abreaks me down
on every
side
, and I am gone
; And He has uprooted
my bhope
clike a tree
.
"He has also akindled His anger
against
me And bconsidered
me as His enemy
.
"His atroops come
together
, And bbuild
up their 1way
against
me And camp
around
my tent
.
"He has aremoved my brothers
far
from me, And my bacquaintances
are completely
estranged
from me.
"My relatives have failed
, And my aintimate
friends
have forgotten
me.
"Those who live in my house
and my maids
consider
me a stranger
. I am
a foreigner
in their sight
.
"I call to my servant
, but he does not answer
; I have to implore
him with my mouth
.
"My breath is 1offensive
to my wife
, And I am loathsome
to my own brothers
.
"Even young
children
despise
me; I rise
up and they speak
against me.
"All 1my aassociates
abhor
me, And those
I love
have turned
against me.
"My abone clings
to my skin
and my flesh
, And I have escaped
only by the skin
of my teeth
.
"Pity me, pity
me, O you my friends
, For the ahand
of God
has struck
me.
"Why do you apersecute
me as God
does, And are not satisfied
with my flesh
?
"Oh that my words
were written
! Oh
that they were ainscribed
in a book
!
"That with an iron stylus
and lead
They were engraved
in the rock
forever
!
"As for me, I know that amy 1Redeemer
lives
, And 2at the last
He will take
His stand
on the 3earth
.
"Even after my skin
1is destroyed
, Yet from my flesh
I shall asee
God
;
Whom I 1myself
shall behold
, And whom my eyes
will see
and not another
. My 2heart
afaints
3within
me!
"If you say
, `How
shall we apersecute
him?' And ` 1What pretext
for a case
against him can we find
?'
"Then be afraid of athe sword
for yourselves, For wrath
brings the punishment
of the sword
, So
that you may know
bthere is judgment
."