1 Then Job answered and said,

<>answered

2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

<>How long will ye vex my soul, <>break me in pieces with words

3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

<>ye reproached me

4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

<>be it indeed that I have erred

5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

<>compassed

7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

<>He hath stripped me of my glory, <>taken the crown from my head

10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

<>mine hope hath he removed, <>tree

11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

<>He hath also kindled his wrath, <>he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies, <>his enemies

12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

<>encamp

13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

<>He hath put my brethren far from me, <>mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me, <>verily

14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

<>stranger, <>an alien

16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

<>I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, <>my servant

17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

<>my wife, <>wife

18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

<>young, <>children, <>despised

19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

<>my inward friends … are turned against me, <>abhorred

20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

<>cleaveth, <>I am escaped with the skin of my teeth., <>escaped

21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

<>persecute

23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

<>vv. 23-24, <>written

24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

<>vv. 23-24

25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

<>my redeemer liveth, <>my redeemer … shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, <>redeemer

26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

<>vv. 26-27, <>worms

27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

<>vv. 26-27

28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

<>the root of the matter is found in me

29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

<>Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, <>there is a judgment