| 1 | And Job answered and said, |
| 2 | I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all. |
| 3 | Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? |
| 4 | I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you; |
| 5 | [But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain]. |
| 6 | If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased? |
| 7 | But now he hath made me weary; ... thou hast made desolate all my family; |
| 8 | Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face. |
| 9 | His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me. |
| 10 | They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me. |
| 11 | �God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked. |
| 12 | I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. |
| 13 | His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. |
| 14 | He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man. |
| 15 | I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust. |
| 16 | My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; |
| 17 | Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. |
| 18 | O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry! |
| 19 | Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights. |
| 20 | My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God. |
| 21 | Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend! |
| 22 | For years [few] in number shall pass,—and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return. |