Thomson(i)
1 To this Job replied,
2 How long will you make my soul sorrowful? You are indeed destroying me with words. Know at least; because the Lord hath dealt thus with me;
3 you speak against me; without shame you fall upon me.
4 Take it for granted that I have erred [though my error remaineth with myself] in speaking words which I ought not: and that my words are erroneous and unseasonable: but granted also,
5 That you magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.
6 Know then, That it is the Lord who hath terrified me, and raised his bulwark against me.
7 Behold I laugh at reproach; I will not speak; I will cry aloud, There is no judgment.
8 I am fenced about and cannot get out. Before me he hath placed darkness.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.
10 He broke me on every side and I fled: and he hath cut down my hope like a tree.
11 When he exercised great wrath against me, and counted me as an enemy:
12 With one consent his troops fell upon me; they who were in ambush beset my ways.
13 My brethren stood aloof from me, they acknowledged strangers rather than me; and my friends were not compassionate.
14 My nearest relations paid me no attention: and they who knew my name forgot me.
15 As for my domesticks and maid servants, in their view I was a stranger.
16 When I called my servant, he did not answer me.
17 When with my mouth I entreated and supplicated my wife, and called affectionately the children of my concubines:
18 they renounced me forever. When I insist, they speak against me.
19 They who saw me, abhorred me; and they whom I loved rose up against me.
20 The flesh next my skin became rotten, and my bones begin to be corroded.
21 Pity me, pity me, O my friends, for the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
22 Why do you persecute me as the Lord doth, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 O that my words were written and recorded in a book forever!
24 That they were engraven with a graver of iron on lead, or on rocks!
25 For I know that he is eternal,
26 who is about to dissolve me on earth, to raise again this skin of mine which draweth up these things.
27 For from the Lord those things have been done to me, of which I alone am conscious; which mine eyes have seen, and no other; and which have all been done to me in my bosom.
28 Now if you will say, What shall we say against him? And what ground of accusation shall we find in him?
29 Stand in awe, I beseech you, of the developing scene; for wrath will come upon the unrighteous, and it shall then be known, where their filthiness is.