² “How long will you torment me
    and break me in pieces with words?
³ These ^(A)ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
    are you not ashamed to wrong me?
⁴ And even if it be true that I have erred,
    my error remains with myself.
⁵ If indeed you ^(B)magnify yourselves against me
    and make my disgrace an argument against me,
⁶ know then that God has ^(C)put me in the wrong
    and closed his net about me.
⁷ Behold, I ^(D)cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered;
    I call for help, but there is no justice.
⁸ He has ^(E)walled up my way, so that I cannot pass,
    and he has set darkness upon my paths.
⁹ He has ^(F)stripped from me my glory
    and taken the ^(G)crown from my head.
¹⁰ He breaks me down on every side, and I ^(H)am gone,
    and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
¹¹ He has kindled his wrath against me
    and ^(I)counts me as his adversary.
¹² His ^(J)troops come on together;
    they have ^(K)cast up their siege ramp^[a] against me
    and encamp around my tent.

²³ “Oh that my words were written!
    Oh that they were ^(C)inscribed in a book!
²⁴ Oh that with an iron ^(D)pen and lead
    they were engraved in the rock forever!
²⁵ For I ^(E)know that my ^(F)Redeemer lives,
    and at the last he will stand upon the ^(G)earth.^[a]
26 And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
    yet in^[b] my flesh I shall ^(H)see God,
²⁷ whom I shall see for myself,
    and my eyes shall behold, and not ^(I)another.
    My heart ^(J)faints within me!