1Then Job answered and said,2How long will you cause my soul to suffer and crush me with words?3This ten times you have humiliated me; you are not ashamed; you wrong me.4And truly I have wandered; error lodges with me.5If truly you magnify yourselves against me and rebuke me concerning my reproach,6know then that God has perverted me and his fortress has surrounded me.7Look, I cry out violence, yet I am not answered; I cry out, and there is no justice.8He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.9He has stripped my glory from me and removed the crown of my head.10He tears me down on every side, and I go; he uproots my hope like a tree.11His anger burns against me, and he counts me as one of his enemies.12His bands come together; they build their way against me and encamp around my tent.13He has removed my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances have surely become strangers to me.14My near ones have ceased, and my acquaintances have forgotten me.15Those who sojourn in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become foreign in their eyes.16I call to my servant, and he does not answer; with my mouth I plead with him.17My spirit is loathsome to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my belly.18Even boys reject me; I arise, and they speak against me.19All the men of my counsel abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.20My skin and my flesh cleave to my bone, and I escape with the skin of my teeth.21Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O my neighbors, for the hand of God has touched me.22Why do you pursue me like God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?23Who then will grant that my words be written? Who will grant that they be inscribed in a scroll?24With an iron stylus and lead let them be hewn in rock forever.25And I know that my redeemer lives, and that the last will arise upon the dust.26And after my skin has been struck, yet from my flesh I will see God.27Whom I will see for myself, and my eyes will see, and not a stranger; my kidneys are consumed within my bosom.28For you say, What do we pursue against him? And the root of the matter is found in me.29Dread the sword for yourselves, for the rage of iniquities is the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment.