1. Then Job answered:
2. “How long will you torment meand crush me with your words?
3. These ten times you have been reproaching me;you are not ashamed to attack me!
4. But even if it were true that I have erred,my error remains solely my concern!
5. If indeed you would exalt yourselves above meand plead my disgrace against me,
6. know then that God has wronged meand encircled me with his net.
7. “If I cry out, ‘Violence!’I receive no answer;I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8. He has blocked my way so I cannot pass,and has set darkness over my paths.
9. He has stripped me of my honorand has taken the crown off my head.