1. Then Job answered:
2. “How long will you torment my souland break me in pieces with words?
3. These ten times you have reproached me;you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.
4. And if indeed I have erred,my error remains with me.
5. If indeed you exalt yourselves against meand plead against me with my disgrace,
6. know now that God has bent meand has surrounded me with His net.
7. “Look, I cry out concerning wrong, but I am not heard;I cry aloud, but there is no justice.
8. He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass,and He has set darkness in my paths.
9. He has stripped me of my gloryand taken the crown from my head.
10. He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone;my hope He has uprooted like a tree.
11. He has also kindled His wrath against me,and He counts me as one of His enemies.
12. His troops come togetherand build up their road against me;they set up camp all around my tent.
13. “He has removed my brothers far fromme,and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
14. My relatives have failed,and my close friends have forgottenme.
15. Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants,count me for a stranger;I am a foreigner in their sight.