1. Job replied,
2. "I've heard many of those things before. You are terrible at comforting me!
3. Your speeches go on forever. Won't they ever end? What's wrong with you? Why do you keep on arguing?
4. If you and I changed places, I could say the same things you are saying. I could make fine speeches against you. I could shake my head at you.
5. But what I might say would give you hope. My words of comfort would help you.
6. "If I speak, it doesn't help me. And if I keep quiet, my pain doesn't go away.
7. God has worn me out completely. He has destroyed my whole family.
8. People can see the condition he has put me in. My thin body stands as a witness against me.
9. God is angry with me. He attacks me and tears me up. He grinds his teeth at me. He stares at me as if he were my enemy.