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How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
“How long will you torment me
and crush me with words?
and crush me with words?
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Ten times now you have reproached me;
shamelessly you attack me.
shamelessly you attack me.
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
If it is true that I have gone astray,
my error remains my concern alone.
my error remains my concern alone.
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me
and use my humiliation against me,
and use my humiliation against me,
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
then know that God has wronged me
and drawn his net around me.
and drawn his net around me.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
“Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response;
though I call for help, there is no justice.
though I call for help, there is no justice.
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;
he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.
and removed the crown from my head.
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
He tears me down on every side till I am gone;
he uproots my hope like a tree.
he uproots my hope like a tree.
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
His anger burns against me;
he counts me among his enemies.
he counts me among his enemies.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
His troops advance in force;
they build a siege ramp against me
and encamp around my tent.
they build a siege ramp against me
and encamp around my tent.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
“He has alienated my family from me;
my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
My relatives have gone away;
my closest friends have forgotten me.
my closest friends have forgotten me.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner;
they look on me as on a stranger.
they look on me as on a stranger.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
I summon my servant, but he does not answer,
though I beg him with my own mouth.
though I beg him with my own mouth.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
My breath is offensive to my wife;
I am loathsome to my own family.
I am loathsome to my own family.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Even the little boys scorn me;
when I appear, they ridicule me.
when I appear, they ridicule me.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
All my intimate friends detest me;
those I love have turned against me.
those I love have turned against me.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
“Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,
for the hand of God has struck me.
for the hand of God has struck me.
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you pursue me as God does?
Will you never get enough of my flesh?
Will you never get enough of my flesh?
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
“Oh, that my words were recorded,
that they were written on a scroll,
that they were written on a scroll,
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
I myself will see him
with my own eyes — I, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me!
with my own eyes — I, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me!
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?