Job

¹ Then Job answered and said,

² And crush me with words?

³ You are not ashamed that you wrong me.

⁴ My error lodges with me.

⁵ And argue my disgrace to me,

⁶ And has closed His net around me.

⁷ I shout for help, but there is no justice.

⁸ And He has put darkness on my paths.

⁹ And removed the crown from my head.

¹⁰ And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

¹¹ And counted me as His adversary.

¹² And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.

¹³ And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

¹⁴ And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵ I am a foreigner in their sight.

¹⁶ I have to implore him with my mouth.

¹⁷ And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

¹⁸ I rise up, and they speak against me.

¹⁹ And those I love have turned against me.

²⁰ And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

²¹ For the hand of God has smitten me.

²² And are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

²⁴ They were engraved in the rock forever!

²⁵ And at the last He will rise up over the dust of this world.

²⁶ Yet from my flesh I shall behold God,

²⁷ And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!

²⁸ ‘And the root of the matter is found in him?’

²⁹ For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment.”