1. Then Job answered,
2. “How long will you torment me,and crush me with words?
3. You have reproached me ten times.You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
4. If it is true that I have erred,my error remains with myself.
5. If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,and plead against me my reproach;
6. know now that God has subverted me,and has surrounded me with his net.
7. “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard.I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8. He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass,and has set darkness in my paths.
9. He has stripped me of my glory,and taken the crown from my head.
10. He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone.My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
11. He has also kindled his wrath against me.He counts me amongst his adversaries.
12. His troops come on together,build a siege ramp against me,and encamp around my tent.
13. “He has put my brothers far from me.My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14. My relatives have gone away.My familiar friends have forgotten me.
15. Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.I am an alien in their sight.