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Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as `one of' his adversaries.

My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

Know now that God hath subverted me `in my cause', And hath compassed me with his net.

If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

Then Job answered and said,

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

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

He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

And after my skin, even' this body', is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:

Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath `bringeth' the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.

That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!

If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;