1. Then Job answered and said:
2. “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
3. Shall windy words have an end?Or what provokes you that you answer?
4. I also could speak as you do,if you were in my place;I could join words together against youand shake my head at you.
5. I could strengthen you with my mouth,and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
6. “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
7. Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
8. And he has shriveled me up,which is a witness against me,and my leanness has risen up against me;it testifies to my face.
9. He has torn me in his wrath and hated me;he has gnashed his teeth at me;my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10. Men have gaped at me with their mouth;they have struck me insolently on the cheek;they mass themselves together against me.