1. Then Job replied:
2. “How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
3. Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.
4. If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.
5. If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
6. then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.
7. “Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
8. He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
9. He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10. He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.
11. His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.
12. His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
13. “He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
14. My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.
15. My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.
16. I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.