1<\/sup>Then Job answered , and said:<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is turned against me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment.<\/span> <\/p>\n