1. Then Job answered:
2. “I have heard many things like these.You are all painful comforters!
3. Will your long, useless speeches never end?What makes you keep on arguing?
4. I also could speak as you doif you were in my place.I could make great speeches against you.And I could shake my head at you.
5. But, instead, my words would encourage you.I would speak words of comfort to bring you relief.
6. “But if I speak, my pain does not become less.And if I don’t speak, it still does not go away.
7. God, you have surely taken away my strength.You have destroyed my whole family.