1. Then Job answered and said:
2. How long will you afflict my spirit,grind me down with words?
3. These ten times you have humiliated me,have assailed me without shame!
4. Even if it were true that I am at fault,my fault would remain with me;
5. If truly you exalt yourselves at my expense,and use my shame as an argument against me,
6. Know then that it is God who has dealt unfairly with me,and compassed me round with his net.
7. If I cry out “Violence!” I am not answered.I shout for help, but there is no justice.
8. He has barred my way and I cannot pass;veiled my path in darkness;
9. He has stripped me of my glory,taken the diadem from my brow.