New International Reader's Version

Job 16:2-8 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

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.