Job 19

¹And Job answered and said,

²How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?

³These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.

⁴And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

⁵If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,

⁶Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.

⁷Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

⁸He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

⁹He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.

¹¹And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.

¹²His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.

¹³He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.

¹⁴My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.