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.