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.
8. You have made me thin and weak.And people feel that this shows I have done wrong.
9. God attacks me and tears me with anger.He grinds his teeth at me.My enemy stares at me with his angry eyes.