1. Then Job answered and said,
2. Many times I have heard such things; miserable comforters are ye all.
3. Shall vain words have an end? Or what is it that emboldens thee to answer?
4. I also could speak as ye do. I wish your soul were in my soul’s stead, that I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would assuage the pain.
6. Though if I speak, my pain does not cease; and if I forbear to speak, it does not depart from me.
7. But now he has made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my company.
8. And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.
9. His wrath has torn me and has been against me; he gnashed upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpened his eyes upon me.
10. They have opened their mouth against me; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11. God has delivered me unto the liar, and in the hands of the wicked he has caused me to tremble.
12. I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark.
13. His archers compassed me round about; he cleaved my kidneys asunder and did not spare; he poured out my gall upon the ground.