But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!

Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me,

After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,

be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."

Then Job answered,

"Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

"How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;

"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.

He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.