19Then Job replied:H347H6030H5592"How long will you torment me and crush me with words?H3013H5315H1792H44053Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.H6235H6471H3637H954H19704If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.H551H7686H4879H38855If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,H551H1431H3198H27816then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.H3045H645H433H5791H5362H46867"Though I cry, 'I've been wronged!' I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.H6817H2555H6030H7768H49418He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.H1443H734H5674H7760H2822H54109He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.H6584H3519H5493H5850H721810He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.H5422H5439H3212H8615H5265H608611His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.H2734H639H2803H686212His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.H1416H935H3162H5549H1870H2583H5439H16813"He has alienated my brothers from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.H7368H251H7368H3045H211414My kinsmen have gone away; my friends have forgotten me.H7138H2308H3045H791115My guests and my maidservants count me a stranger; they look upon me as an alien.H1481H1004H519H2803H2114H5237H586916I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.H7121H5650H6030H2603H1119H631017My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own brothers.H7307H2114H802H2589H1121H99018Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.H5759H3988H6965H169619All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.H5475H4962H8581H157H201520I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.H6106H1692H5785H1320H4422H5785H812721"Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.H2603H2603H7453H3027H433H506022Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?H7291H410H7646H132023"Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,H5414H4405H645H3789H5414H2710H561224that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!H2672H1270H5842H5777H6697H570325I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.H3045H1350H2416H6965H314H608326And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;H310H5785H5362H1320H2372H43327I myself will see him with my own eyes--I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!H2372H5869H7200H2114H3629H3615H243628"If you say, 'How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,'H559H7291H8328H1697H467229you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment."H1481H2719H2534H5771H6440H2719H3045H1779H1779