1 ¶ Then Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? See also: Judges 16:16 Job 8:2 Job 18:2 Job 27:2 Psalms 6:2-3
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. See also: Genesis 31:7 Nehemiah 4:12 Job 15:4-6 Job 15:11-12 Job 18:4-21
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. See also: Proverbs 9:12 Ezekiel 18:4 2 Corinthians 5:10 2 Samuel 24:17 Job 11:3-6
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: See also: Psalms 35:26 Psalms 38:16 Psalms 55:12 1 Samuel 1:6 Nehemiah 1:3
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. See also: Job 18:8-10 Job 7:20 Job 16:11-14 Job 27:2 Psalms 44:9-14
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. See also: Lamentations 3:8 Habakkuk 1:2-3 Job 21:27 Job 23:3-7 Job 30:20
8 ¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. See also: Job 3:23 Lamentations 3:7 Psalms 88:8 Proverbs 4:19 Lamentations 3:9
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. See also: Psalms 89:44 Job 29:7-14 Job 12:17 Job 30:1 Psalms 89:39
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. See also: Job 24:20 Psalms 37:35-36 Job 12:14 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 Job 1:13-19
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. See also: Job 13:24 Job 16:9 Job 33:10 Deuteronomy 32:22 Psalms 89:46
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. See also: Job 30:12 Job 16:13 Job 16:11 Isaiah 10:5-6 Isaiah 51:23
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. See also: Psalms 88:8 Psalms 69:8 Psalms 88:18 Psalms 31:11 Psalms 69:20
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. See also: Psalms 38:11 2 Samuel 16:23 Psalms 55:12-14 Proverbs 18:24 Jeremiah 20:10
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. See also: Job 31:31-32 Psalms 123:3
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. See also: Job 1:15-17 Job 1:19
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. See also: Job 2:9-10 Job 17:1
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. See also: 2 Kings 2:23 Job 30:1 Job 30:12 Isaiah 3:5
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. See also: Psalms 41:9 Psalms 55:12-14 Psalms 109:4-5 Job 6:14-15 Psalms 38:11
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. See also: Psalms 102:5 Lamentations 4:8 Job 33:19-22 Job 2:4-6 Job 7:5
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. See also: Job 1:11 Psalms 38:2 Job 2:5 Job 2:10 Job 6:4
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? See also: Psalms 69:26 Job 2:5 Job 10:16 Job 13:25 Job 16:11
23 ¶ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! See also: Isaiah 30:8 Job 31:35 Isaiah 8:1
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! See also: Jeremiah 17:1 Exodus 28:11-12 Exodus 28:21 Exodus 32:16 Deuteronomy 27:2-3
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: See also: Ephesians 1:7 Isaiah 54:5 Psalms 78:35 Psalms 19:14 Proverbs 23:11
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: See also: Matthew 5:8 1 John 3:2 Psalms 17:15 1 Corinthians 13:12 Revelation 1:7
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. See also: Psalms 73:26 Isaiah 26:19 Numbers 24:17
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? See also: Job 19:22 1 Kings 14:13 Psalms 69:26
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. See also: Ecclesiastes 11:9 Ecclesiastes 12:14 Job 13:7-11 Job 15:22 Job 22:4