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Job Says Friends Are Miserable Comforters

1Then Job responded,

2“I have heard many things like these;

Lit Comforters of trouble Miserable comforters are you all!

3Is there no end to windy words?

Or what provokes you that you answer?

4I too could speak like you,

If only Lit your soul were in place of my soulI were in your place.

I could compose words against you

And shake my head at you.

5 Or I could strengthen you with my mouth,

And the condolence of my lips could lessen your pain.

Job Says God Shattered Him

6“If I speak, my pain is not lessened,

And if I refrain, what pain leaves me?

7But now He has exhausted me;

You have laid waste all my group of loved ones.

8And you have shriveled me up,

I.e., Job’s condition It has become a witness;

And my infirmity rises up against me,

It testifies to my face.

9His anger has torn me and Lit borne a grudge against mehunted me down,

He has gnashed at me with His teeth;

My enemy Lit sharpens his eyesglares at me.

10They have gaped at me with their mouths,

They have Lit struckslapped me on the cheek with contempt;

They have massed themselves against me.

11God hands me over to criminals,

And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

12I was at ease, but He shattered me,

And He has grasped me by my neck and shaken me to pieces;

He has also set me up as His target.

13His arrows surround me.

He splits my kidneys open without mercy;

He pours out my bile on the ground.

14He breaks through me with breach after breach;

He runs at me like a warrior.

15I have sewed sackcloth over my skin,

And thrust my horn in the dust.

16My face is flushed from weeping,

And deep darkness is on my eyelids,

17Although there is no violence in my hands,

And my prayer is pure.

18“Earth, do not cover my blood,

And may there be no resting place for my cry.

19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,

And my Or witnessadvocate is on high.

20My friends are my scoffers;

My eye weeps to God,

21That one might plead for a man with God

As a son of man with his neighbor!

22For when a few years are past,

I shall go the way of no return.