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1 Then Job answered, and said: Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters. “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. “I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!
3 Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak? Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
4 I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul. I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you. I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you. I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
5 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you. I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain. But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
6 But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me. “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me? “Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
7 But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing. Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company. Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
8 My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me. And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face. You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
9 He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes. He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me. God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
10 They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains. Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me. People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
11 God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked. God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked. God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
12 I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark. I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target; All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
13 He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth. his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground. his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.
14 He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant. He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior. Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.
15 I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust. “I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
16 My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim. My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness, My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;
17 These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God. although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee. “O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place. “Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!
19 For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high. Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high. Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
20 My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God. My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
21 And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion! that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor. on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.
22 For behold short years pass away and I am walking in a path by which l shall not return. For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return. “Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.
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