[1] Then Job answered, [2] "How long will you torment me,    And crush me
with words? [3] You have reproached me ten times.    You aren`t ashamed
that you attack me. [4] If it is true that I have erred,    My error
remains with myself. [5] If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, 
  And plead against me my reproach; [6] Know now that God has subverted me,
   And has surrounded me with his net. [7] "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but
I am not heard:    I cry for help, but there is no justice. [8] He has
walled up my way so that I can`t pass,	  And has set darkness in my paths.
[9] He has stripped me of my glory,    And taken the crown from my head.
[10] He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone.    My hope he has
plucked up like a tree. [11] He has also kindled his wrath against me.	 
He counts me among his adversaries. [12] His troops come on together,	
Build a siege ramp against me,	  And encamp around my tent. [13] "He has
put my brothers far from me.	My acquaintances are wholly estranged from
me. [14] My relatives have gone away.	 My familiar friends have forgotten
me. [15] Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a	
stranger.    I am an alien in their sight. [16] I call to my servant, and
he gives me no answer;	  I beg him with my mouth. [17] My breath is
offensive to my wife.	 I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
[18] Even young children despise me.	If I arise, they speak against me.
[19] All my familiar friends abhor me.	  They whom I loved have turned
against me. [20] My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.    I have
escaped by the skin of my teeth. [21] "Have pity on me, have pity on me,
you my friends;    For the hand of God has touched me. [22] Why do you
persecute me as God,	And are not satisfied with my flesh? [23] "Oh that
my words were now written!    Oh that they were inscribed in a book! [24]
That with an iron pen and lead	  They were engraved in the rock forever!
[25] But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.    In the end, he will
stand upon the earth. [26] After my skin is destroyed,	  Then in my flesh
shall I see God, [27] Whom I, even I, shall see on my side.    My eyes
shall see, and not as a stranger.  "My heart is consumed within me. [28] If
you say, `How we will persecute him!`	 Because the root of the matter is
found in me, [29] Be afraid of the sword,    For wrath brings the
punishments of the sword,    That you may know there is a judgment."