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Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.

I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

And Job made answer and said,

If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

And ... without my flesh I will see God;

Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.