English Standard Version

Job 16:1-7 English Standard Version (ESV)

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.