2 How long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words

3 These ten times have ye reproached me ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me

4 And be it indeed that I have erred mine error remaineth with myself

5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach

6 Know now that God hath overthrown me and hath compassed me with his net

7 Behold I cry out of wrong but I am not heard I cry aloud but there is no judgment

8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass and he hath set darkness in my paths

9 He hath stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head

10 He hath destroyed me on every side and I am gone and mine hope hath he removed like a tree

11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies

12 His troops come together and raise up their way against me and encamp round about my tabernacle

13 He hath put my brethren far from me and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me

14 My kinsfolk have failed and my familiar friends have forgotten me

15 They that dwell in mine house and my maids count me for a stranger I am an alien in their sight

16 I called my servant and he gave me no answer I intreated him with my mouth

17 My breath is strange to my wife though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body

18 Yea young children despised me I arose and they spake against me

19 All my inward friends abhorred me and they whom I loved are turned against me

20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth

21 Have pity upon me have pity upon me O ye my friends for the hand of God hath touched me

22 Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh

23 Oh that my words were now written oh that they were printed in a book

24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever

25 For I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth

26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God

27 Whom I shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reins be consumed within me

28 But ye should say Why persecute we him seeing the root of the matter is found in me

29 Be ye afraid of the sword for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword that ye may know there is a judgment __