Dual Panel1THEN JOB answered:
2How long will you vex {and} torment me and break me in pieces with words?
3These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange [harden yourselves against me and deal severely with me].
4And if it were true that I have erred, my error would remain with me [I would be conscious of it].
5If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach {and} humiliation,
6Know that God has overthrown {and} put me in the wrong and has closed His net about me.
7Behold, I cry out, Violence! but I am not heard; I cry aloud for help, but 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 me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.
10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope has He pulled up like a tree.
11He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His adversaries.
12His troops come together and cast up their way {and} siege works against me and encamp round about my tent.
13He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14My kinsfolk have failed me, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15Those who live temporarily in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
16I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer, though I beseech him with words.
17I am repulsive to my wife and loathsome to the children of my own mother.
18Even young children despise me; when I get up, they speak against me.
19All the men of my council {and} my familiar friends abhor me; those whom I loved are turned against me.
20My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin {or} gums of my teeth.
21Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
22Why do you, as if you were God, pursue {and} persecute me? [Acting like wild beasts] why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
23Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book [carved on a tablet of stone]!
24That with an iron pen and [molten] lead they were graven in the rock forever!
25For I know that my Redeemer {and} Vindicator lives, and at last He [the Last One] will stand upon the earth.
26And after my skin, even this body, has been destroyed, then from my flesh {or} without it I shall see God,
27Whom I, even I, shall see for myself {and} on my side! And my eyes shall behold Him, and not as a stranger! My heart pines away {and} is consumed within me.
28If you say, How we will pursue him! [and continue to persecute me with the claim] that the root [cause] of all these [afflictions] is found in me,
29Then beware {and} be afraid of the sword [of divine vengeance], for wrathful are the punishments of that sword, that you may know there is a judgment.