² “How long will you torment my soul,
And break me in pieces with words?
³ These ten times you have ^[a]reproached me;
You are not ashamed that you ^[b]have wronged me.
⁴ And if indeed I have erred,
My error remains with me.
⁵ If indeed you ^(A)exalt yourselves against me,
And plead my disgrace against me,
⁶ Know then that ^(B)God has wronged me,
And has surrounded me with His net.

⁷ “If I cry out concerning ^[c]wrong, I am not heard.
If I cry aloud, there is no justice.

²³ “Oh, that my words were written!
Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
²⁴ That they were engraved on a rock
With an iron pen and lead, forever!
²⁵ For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth;
²⁶ And after my skin is ^[a]destroyed, this I know,
That ^(A)in my flesh I shall see God,
²⁷ Whom I shall see for myself,
And my eyes shall behold, and not another.
How my ^[b]heart yearns within me!
²⁸ If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’—
Since the root of the matter is found in me,
²⁹ Be afraid of the sword for yourselves;
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
That you may know there is a judgment.”