1And Job answered and said:
2How long will you grieve my soul (nephesh), and crush me with words?
3These ten times you have insulted me; you are not ashamed to wrong me.
4And indeed, if I have erred, with me my error lodges.
5If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and argue against me my reproach,
6know then that God has wronged me, and has encircled me with His net.
7Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I cry for help, but there is no judgment (mishpat).
8My way He has walled up so I cannot pass, and upon my paths He sets darkness.
9My glory He has stripped from me, and removed the crown of my head.
10He breaks me down all around, and I am gone; and He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
11And He has kindled His anger against me, and counts me to Him as His adversaries.
12Together His troops come, and cast up their way against me, and encamp around my tent.
13My brothers He has put far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14My kinsmen have ceased, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger; an alien I have become in their eyes.
16I called to my servant, but he does not answer; with my mouth I plead to him.
17My spirit (ruach) is strange to my wife (ishah), and I plead to the sons of my belly.
18Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.
19All the men of my counsel abhor me, and these whom I loved have turned against me.
20In my skin and in my flesh (basar) my bone clings, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
22Why do you pursue me like God, and are not satisfied with my flesh (basar)?
23Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24With an iron pen and lead, forever in the rock they were engraved!
25And I, I know that my Redeemer lives (chai), and at the last He will rise upon the dust (aphar).
26And after my skin is destroyed, this, yet in my flesh (basar) I shall see God.
27Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not a stranger; my kidneys are consumed within me.
28For you say, 'How shall we pursue him?' since the root of the matter is found in me.
29Be afraid for yourselves of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is judgment (din).