1   Bvt Iob answering, sayd:

2   How long doe you afflict my soule, and weare me with wordes?

3   Behold, ten times you counfound me, and are not ashamed oppressing me.

4   For although I haue beene ignorant, mine ignorance shal be with me.

5   But you are set vp against me, and reproue me with my reproches.

6   At the least now vnderstand ye, that God hath afflicted me ^note not with equal iudgement, and hath compassed me with his scourges.

7   Behold I shal crie suffering violence, and no man wil heare: I shal crie out, and there is none to iudge.

8   He hath hedged my path round about, and I can not passe, and in my way hath put darkenesse.

9   He hath spoiled me of my glorie, and hath taken the crowne from my head.

10   He hath destroyed me on euerie side, and I perish, and as it were from a tree plucked hath he taken away my hope.

11   His

furie is wrath against me, and he hath so accounted me as his enemie.

12   His seriantes haue come together, and haue made them selues a way by me, and haue besieged my tabernacle round about.

13   He hath made my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance as strangers haue departed from me.

14   My kinsemen haue forsaken me, and they that knew me haue forgotten me.

15   The ghestes of my house, and my maydseruantes haue counted me an aliene, and I haue bene as it were a stranger in their eies.

16   I called my seruant, and he did not answer me, with mine owne mouth I besought him.

17   My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I prayed the children of my wombe.

18   Fooles also despised me, and when I was departed from them, they backbited me.

19   My counselers sometime haue abhorred me: and he ^note whom I loued most hath turned against me.

20   The flesh being consumed my bone hath cleaued to my skinne, and there are left onlie lippes about my teeth.

21   Haue mercie vpon me, haue mercie vpon me, at the least you my frendes, because the hand of our Lord hath touched me.

22   Why doe you as God persecute me, and are silled with my flesh.

23   Who wil grant me that my wordes may be writen? who wil geue me that they may be drawen in a booke,

24   with yron penne, and in plate of leade, or els with stile might be grauen in flintstone?

25   For ^note I know that my Redemer liueth, and in the last day I shal rise out of the earth.

26   And I shal be compassed agayne with my skinne, and in my flesh I shal see God.

27   Whom I my self shal see, and mine eies shal behold, and ^note none other: this my hope is layd vp in my bosome.

28   Why then doe you say now: Let vs persecute him, and let vs finde roote of word agaynst him?

29   Flee therfore from the face of the sword, because the sword is the reuenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is iudgement.

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