1 JOB REPLIED:
2 禄How long will you torment me and depress me with words?
3 禄You have insulted me ten times now. You are not even ashamed of hurting me.
4 禄Even if it were true that I made a mistake without realizing it, my mistake would affect only me.
5 禄If you are trying to make yourselves look better than me by using my disgrace as an argument against me,
6 then I want you to know that God has wronged me and surrounded me with his net.
7 禄Yes I cry for Help! I am being attacked! But I get no response. I call for help, but there is no justice.
8 禄God has blocked my path so that I cannot go on. He has made my path dark.
9 禄He stripped me of my honor. He took the crown off my head.
10 禄He beats me down on every side until I am gone. He uproots my hope like a tree.
11 禄He is very angry with me. He considers me his enemy.
12 禄His troops assemble against me. They build a ramp to attack me. They camp around my tent.
13 禄My brothers stay far away from me. My friends are complete strangers to me.
14 禄My relatives and my closest friends have stopped coming. My houseguests have forgotten me.
15 禄My female slaves consider me to be a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.
16 禄I call my slave, but he does not answer, even when I beg him.
17 禄I am repulsive to my wife and my children think I stink.
18 禄Even young children despise me. If I stand up, they make fun of me.
19 禄All my closest friends are disgusted with me. Those I love have turned against me.
20 禄My bones cling to my skin. I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth with almost nothing.
21 禄Have pity on me, my friends! Have pity on me because God's hand has struck me down.
22 禄Why do you pursue me as God does? Why are you never satisfied with my flesh?
23 禄I wish now my words were written. I wish they were inscribed on a scroll.
24 禄I wish they were engraved forever on a rock with an iron stylus and lead.
25 禄I know that my redeemer lives, and in later days he will take his stand on the earth.
26 禄Even after my skin is gone and this body destroyed, I will see God in my own flesh.
27 禄I will see him with my own eyes, not with someone else's. My heart fails inside me!
28 禄You say: 聭We will persecute him!聮 The root of the problem is found in him.
29 禄Fear the sword and death, because your anger is punishable by the sword. Then you will know there is a judge.芦