2How long will you grieve my soul, and make me sick with words?

3For behold, these ten times you have rebuked me; and yet you are not ashamed that you make me sad.

4If indeed I have erred, my error remains with myself.

5If you have justly magnified yourselves against me, rebuked me, and reproached me,

6Know then that God has condemned me, and spread his net over me.

7If I howl, no one answers me; and if I complain, there is no one to avenge me.

8He has fenced up my ways so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.

9He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

10He has destroyed me on every side, and I am no more; and my hope has he removed like a piece of tree.

11He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me as his enemy.

12His messengers have come together against me; they debated their ways against me, and encamped round about my tent.

13My brothers are far off from me, and my acquaintances have deserted me.

14My kinsfolk have failed me, and my familiar friends have forsaken me.

15They that dwell in my house, and my maids, consider me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth and implored him.

17I have become a stranger to my wife, and have implored the children of my own body.

18Yea, even the wicked despise me; when I rise, they speak against me.

19All my counselors abhor me; even my friends have turned against me.

20My skin and my flesh cleave to my bones, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has been against me.

22Why do you also persecute me like God, and you are not satisfied with the hurt of my flesh?

23Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a scroll!

24That they were engraved with an iron pen on lead or in the rock for ever!

25For I know that my Saviour lives, and at the end he will reveal himself upon the earth;

26Although devouring worms have covered my skin and my flesh,

27Yet, if my eyes shall see God, then my heart also will see the light; but now my body is consumed.

28For you will say, Why did we persecute him? For a good report will follow me and vindicate me.

29Spare yourselves from the sword; for the wrath of sinners is a sword; for you shall yet know that there is judgment.