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1 And Job will answer and say, Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 I heard many like there: comforters of vexation ye all. “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 Was there an end to words of wind? or what will provoke thee that thou wilt answer? 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 Also I will speak as you: if it is your soul instead of my soul, I will join together with words against you, and shake my head against you upon it. 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 will strengthen you with my month, the moving of my lips shall hold back. 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 If I shall speak, my pain will not be held back, and shall I cease, what will go 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 he made me weary: thou hast made desolate all mine assembly. 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 Thou wilt lay fast hold on me to be for a testimony, and my leanness will rise up in me; it will answer against my face. 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 rent in his anger, and he will lie in wait for me, gnashing upon me with his teeth; mine enemy will sharpen his eyes against me. 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 gaped upon me with their mouth; with reproach they struck upon my cheek; they will fill out together against me. 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 will shut me up to the evil one, and he will cast me into the hands of the unjust. 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 was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a 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 His multitudes will surround upon me, he will cleave my reins asunder, and not spare; he will pour my gall upon 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 will break me, breaking upon the face of breaking; he will run upon me as the strong one. 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 sewed together sackcloth upon my skin, and I thrust my horn into the dust. 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 became red from weeping, and upon my eye-lashes the shadow of death. 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 Not for violence in my hands: and my prayer is clean. 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, thou wilt not cover my blood; and shall there not be place for my cry? “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 Also now, behold, my witness in the heavens, and my testimony in the heights. 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 mocking me: to God mine eye wept. 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 Shall he judge for a man with God? and the son of man for his neighbor? 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 When years of number shall come, and the way I shall go I shall not turn back. 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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