Job

¹ Then Job replied:

² and crush me with words?

³ shamelessly you attack me.

⁴ my error remains my concern alone.

⁵ and use my humiliation against me,

⁶ and drawn his net around me.

⁷ though I call for help, there is no justice.

⁸ he has shrouded my paths in darkness.

⁹ and removed the crown from my head.

¹⁰ he uproots my hope like a tree.

¹¹ he counts me among his enemies.

¹² they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

¹³ my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

¹⁴ my friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵ they look upon me as an alien.

¹⁶ though I beg him with my own mouth.

¹⁷ I am loathsome to my own brothers.

¹⁸ when I appear, they ridicule me.

¹⁹ those I love have turned against me.

²⁰ I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.

²¹ for the hand of God has struck me.

²² Will you never get enough of my flesh?

²³ that they were written on a scroll,

²⁴ or engraved in rock forever!

²⁵ and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.

²⁶ yet in my flesh I will see God;

²⁷ with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

²⁸ since the root of the trouble lies in him,’

²⁹ for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment.”