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1 - And Job answereth and saith: --

2 - Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?

3 - These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me--

4 - And also--truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.

5 - If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;

6 - Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

7 - Lo, I cry out--violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

8 - My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

9 - Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

10 - He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

11 - And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

12 - Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.

13 - My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.

14 - Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,

15 - Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.

16 - To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.

17 - My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my <FI>mother's<Fi> womb.

18 - Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.

19 - Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

20 - To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.

21 - Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

22 - Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?

23 - Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?

24 - With a pen of iron and lead--For ever in a rock they may be hewn.

25 - That--I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.

26 - And after my skin hath compassed this <FI>body<Fi> , Then from my flesh I see God:

27 - Whom I--I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

28 - But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.

29 - Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious <FI>are<Fi> the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that <FI>there is<Fi> a judgment.