1. Then Job answered:
2. How long will you torment meand crush me with words?
3. You have humiliated me ten times now,and you mistreat me without shame.
4. Even if it is true that I have sinned,my mistake concerns only me.
5. If you really want to appear superior to meand would use my disgrace as evidence against me,
6. then understand that it is God who has wronged meand caught me in His net.
7. I cry out: “Violence!” but get no response; I call for help, but there is no justice.
8. He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;He has veiled my paths with darkness.