1. Job said:
2. I have often heard this,and it offers no comfort.
3. So why don't you keep quiet?What's bothering you?
4. If I were in your place,it would be easy to criticizeor to give advice.
5. But I would offer hopeand comfort instead.
6. If I speak, or if I don't,I suffer all the same.My torment continues.
7. God has worn me downand destroyed my family;
8. my shrivelled up skin provesthat I am his prisoner.
9. God is my hateful enemy,glaring at me and attackingwith his sharp teeth.