1. Then Job answered and said:
2. “I have heard many such things;Miserable comforters are you all!
3. Shall words of wind have an end?Or what provokes you that you answer?
4. I also could speak as you do,If your soul were in my soul’s place.I could heap up words against you,And shake my head at you;
5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth,And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.
6. “Though I speak, my grief is not relieved;And if I remain silent, how am I eased?
7. But now He has worn me out;You have made desolate all my company.
8. You have shriveled me up,And it is a witness against me;My leanness rises up against meAnd bears witness to my face.
9. He tears me in His wrath, and hates me;He gnashes at me with His teeth;My adversary sharpens His gaze on me.
10. They gape at me with their mouth,They strike me reproachfully on the cheek,They gather together against me.
11. God has delivered me to the ungodly,And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.