1Then Job answered:
2“How long will you torment me
3Ten times now you have reproached me;
4Even if I have truly gone astray,
5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me
6then understand that it is God who has wronged me
7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response;
8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;
9He has stripped me of my honor
10He tears me down on every side until I am gone;
11His anger burns against me,
12His troops advance together;
13He has removed my brothers from me;
14My kinsmen have failed me,
15My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger;
16I call for my servant, but he does not answer,
17My breath is repulsive to my wife,
18Even little boys scorn me;
19All my best friends despise me,
20My skin and flesh cling to my bones;
21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,
22Why do you persecute me as God does?
23I wish that my words were recorded
24by an iron stylus on lead,
25But I know that my Redeemer 19:25 Or Vindicator lives,
26Even after my skin has been destroyed,
27I will see Him for myself;
28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him,
29then you should fear the sword yourselves,