1. THEN JOB answered,
2. I have heard many such things; wearisome and miserable comforters are you all!
3. Will your futile words of wind have no end? Or what makes you so bold to answer [me like this]?
4. I also could speak as you do, if you were in my stead; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.
5. [But] I would strengthen and encourage you with [the words of] my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would soothe your suffering.