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“How long will you torment me
and crush me with words?
and crush me with words?
How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
Ten times now you have reproached me;
shamelessly you attack me.
shamelessly you attack me.
These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.
If it is true that I have gone astray,
my error remains my concern alone.
my error remains my concern alone.
And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me
and use my humiliation against me,
and use my humiliation against me,
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,
then know that God has wronged me
and drawn his net around me.
and drawn his net around me.
Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.
“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.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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 hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.
and removed the crown from my head.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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 breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.
His anger burns against me;
he counts me among his enemies.
he counts me among his enemies.
And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.
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.
His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.
“He has alienated my family from me;
my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
My relatives have gone away;
my closest friends have forgotten me.
my closest friends have forgotten me.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
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.
The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
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.
I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.
My breath is offensive to my wife;
I am loathsome to my own family.
I am loathsome to my own family.
My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.
Even the little boys scorn me;
when I appear, they ridicule me.
when I appear, they ridicule me.
Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
All my intimate friends detest me;
those I love have turned against me.
those I love have turned against me.
All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
“Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,
for the hand of God has struck me.
for the hand of God has struck me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.
Why do you pursue me as God does?
Will you never get enough of my flesh?
Will you never get enough of my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
“Oh, that my words were recorded,
that they were written on a scroll,
that they were written on a scroll,
Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!
That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;
And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;
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!
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: -- my reins are consumed within me.
If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,