- 1. ¶ THEN Job answered and said,
- 2. I have heard many such things; wicked comforters are you all.
- 3. Do not grieve my spirit with words; even though you speak, I will not answer.
- 4. I also could speak as you do; I wish you were in my place, then I could try you out with words, and shake my head at you.
- 5. I would prove you with your own words, and the words of my lips would not spare you.
- 6. ¶ If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, who can comfort me?
- 7. But now he has troubled me, and yet has preserved all of my testimony.
- 8. Thou didst appoint me and I became a witness, but my lies have testified against me; and I spoke in his presence.
- 9. He has torn me and broken me in his wrath; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes against me.
- 10. They have gaped upon me with their mouth reproachfully; they have smitten me upon my cheeks; they were filled with rage against me.
- 11. God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
- 12. I was at ease, but he has smitten me; he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his target.
- 13. His arrows are round about me, he shoots at my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
- 14. He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs against me like a giant.
- 15. I have girded sackcloth upon my skin, and I have covered my head with dust.
- 16. My face is troubled with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
- 17. ¶ But not for any iniquity in my hands; my prayer also is pure.
- 18. O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no place!
- 19. And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my acquaintances are on high.
- 20. O my brethren and my neighbors! my eyes pour out tears to God!
- 21. O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
- 22. For the number of a man’s years will come to an end; then he shall go the way from whence he shall not return.
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