1   Bvt Iob answered, and said,

2   Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?

3   Ye haue now ^note ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.

4   And though I had in deede erred, mine errour ^note remaineth with me.

5   But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,

6   Know nowe, that God hath ^note ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.

7   Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.

8   Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot ^note passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.

9   Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the ^note crowne away from mine head.

10   He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like ^note a tree.

11   And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.

12   His ^note armies came together, & made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.

13   He hath remooued my brethr&ebar; farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.

14   My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.

15    ^noteThey that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.

16   I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.

17   My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine ^note owne body.

18   The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.

19   All my secret friends abhorred me, & they whome I loued, are turned against me.

20   My bone ^note cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the ^note skinne of my teeth.

21   Haue pitie vpon me: haue ^note pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.

22   Why do ye persecute me, as ^note God? & are not satisfied with my ^note flesh?

23   Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,

24   And grauen with ^note an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!

25   For I am sure, that my ^note Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.

26   And though after my skin wormes destroy The plagues of the wicked. this bodie, yet shall I see God ^note in my flesh.

27   Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.

28   But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a ^note deepe matter in me.

29   Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be ^note auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.

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