1Then Job answered, 2"How long will you torment me, 3You have reproached me ten times. 4If it is true that I have erred, 5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, 6know now that God has subverted me, 7"Behold, I cry out 'Injustice!' but there is no justice.ΒΆ 8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, 9He has stripped me of my glory, 10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. 11He has also kindled his wrath against me. 12His troops come on together, 13"He has put my brothers far from me. 14My relatives have gone away. 15Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. 16I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. 17My breath is offensive to my wife. 18Even young children despise me. 19All my familiar friends abhor me. 20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. 21"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; 22Why do you persecute me as God, 23"Oh that my words were now written! 24That with an iron pen and lead 25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. 26After my skin is destroyed, 27Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. 28If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' 29be afraid of the sword,