1. Then Job answered, and said:
2. How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3. Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
4. For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
5. But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
6. At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.
7. Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.
8. He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
9. He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.
10. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.
11. His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.
12. His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.
13. He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.