1. Then Job spoke again:
2. “I have heard all this before.What miserable comforters you are!
3. Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air?What makes you keep on talking?
4. I could say the same things if you were in my place.I could spout off criticism and shake my head at you.
5. But if it were me, I would encourage you.I would try to take away your grief.
6. Instead, I suffer if I defend myself,and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.
7. “O God, you have ground me downand devastated my family.
8. As if to prove I have sinned, you’ve reduced me to skin and bones.My gaunt flesh testifies against me.
9. God hates me and angrily tears me apart.He snaps his teeth at meand pierces me with his eyes.