Then Job answered and said,
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.
1Afei Hiob buaeɛ kaa sɛ,Under pastoral review
2Ɛnkɔsi da bɛn na mobɛha me kra, na mode nsɛm abubu me mu asinasini?Under pastoral review
3Mprɛ du yi na moasopa me: mo ani nwu sɛ moyɛ mo ho ahɔhoɔ ma me.Under pastoral review
4Na sɛ ampa sɛ mafom a, me mfomsoɔ ka me ho.Under pastoral review
5Sɛ ampa sɛ mobɛma mo ho so atia me, na mode m'animguaseɛ adi asɛm atia me a:Under pastoral review
6Afei monhunu sɛ Onyankopɔn abu me abutu, na ɔde n'asau atwa me ho ahyia.Under pastoral review
7Hwɛ, meteateam ntɛnkyea ho, nanso wɔnte me: meteateam denden, nanso atemmuo nni hɔ.Under pastoral review
8Wasi me kwan ano ama mentumi ntwa, na ɔde esum asi m'akwan so.Under pastoral review
9Wayi m'animuonyam afiri me so, na wagye ahenkyɛ afiri me tiri so.Under pastoral review
10Wasɛe me wɔ afanan nyinaa, na makɔ: na watutu m'anidasoɔ sɛ dua.Under pastoral review
11Wasɔ n'abufuo nso atia me, na ɔbu me sɛ n'atamfoɔ no mu baako.Under pastoral review
12N'akuo bom ba, na wɔsi wɔn kwan atia me, na wɔtwa me ntomadan ho hyia sesɛ.Under pastoral review
13Wayi me nuanom afiri me ho akɔ akyiri, na m'amannifoɔ ayɛ ahɔhoɔ ama me ampa.Under pastoral review
14M'abusuafoɔ agyae me, na me nnamfo pa werɛ afiri me.Under pastoral review
15Wɔn a wɔte me fie, ne me mfenaa, bu me sɛ ɔhɔhoɔ: meyɛ ɔnanani wɔ wɔn ani so.Under pastoral review
16Mefrɛɛ m'akoa, na wamma me mmuaeɛ biara; mede m'ano srɛɛ no.Under pastoral review
17M'ahome yɛ me yere ahɔhoɔdeɛ, ɛwom sɛ mesrɛɛ me ho mma a wɔfiri me yam nti.Under pastoral review
18Aane, mmɔfra nkumaa buu me animtiaa; mesɔreeɛ, na wɔkasa tiaa me.Under pastoral review
19Me nnamfo a wɔbɛn me nyinaa kyirii me: na wɔn a na medɔ wɔn no adane atia me.Under pastoral review
20Me dompe atare me wedeɛ ne me honam, na mede me se ho wedeɛ na adwane.Under pastoral review
21Monhunu me mmɔbɔ, monhunu me mmɔbɔ, Ao mo me nnamfonom; efisɛ Onyankopɔn nsa aka me.Under pastoral review
22Adɛn enti na motaa me sɛ Onyankopɔn, na me honam mmee mo?Under pastoral review
23Ao sɛ wɔatwerɛ me nsɛm seesei! Ao sɛ wɔatintim wɔ nwoma mu!Under pastoral review
24Sɛ wɔde dadeɛ twerɛdua ne sumpii akrukyire agu ɔbotan mu afebɔɔ!Under pastoral review
25Efisɛ menim sɛ me weretɔfoɔ te ase, na sɛ ɔbɛgyina asase so nna a ɛdi akyire mu:Under pastoral review
26Na ɛwom sɛ me wedeɛ akyi no, nsammaa bɛsɛe saa nipadua yi deɛ, nanso me honam mu na mɛhunu Onyankopɔn:Under pastoral review
27Deɛ m'ankasa mɛhunu no, na m'ani bɛhwɛ no, na ɛnyɛ ɔfoforɔ; ɛwom sɛ m'asaabo asa wɔ me mu deɛ.Under pastoral review
28Na ɛsɛ sɛ moka sɛ, Adɛn enti na yɛtaa no, ɛberɛ a wɔahunu asɛm no ntini wɔ me mu?Under pastoral review
29Monsuro akofena: efisɛ abufuo de akofena asotwe ba, na moahunu sɛ atemmuo wɔ hɔ.Under pastoral review