16Then Job answered:H347H6030H5592I have heard many things like these. You are all miserable comforters.H8085H7227H5999H51623Is there [no] end to your empty words? What provokes you that you continue testifying?H7307H1697H7093H4834H60304If you were in my place I could also talk like you. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you, [but I wouldn't].H1696H3863H5315H3426H5315H2266H4405H5128H7218H11195I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.H553H1119H6310H5205H8193H28206Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, what have I lost?H1696H3511H2820H2308H19807Surely He has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family.H3811H8074H57128You have shriveled me up— it has become a witness; My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.H7059H5707H3585H6965H6030H64409His anger tears [at me], and He harasses me. He gnashes His teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with His eyes.H2963H639H7852H2786H8127H6862H3913H586910They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join themselves together against me.H6473H6310H5221H3895H2781H4390H316211God hands me over to unjust men; He throws me into the hands of the wicked.H410H5462H5760H3399H3027H756312I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized [me] by the scruff of the neck and smashed me to pieces. He set me up as His target;H7961H6565H270H6203H6327H6965H430713His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and pours my bile on the ground.H7228H5437H6398H3629H6398H2550H8210H4845H77614He breaks through my defenses again and again; He charges at me like a warrior.H6555H6556H6440H6556H7323H136815I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my strength in the dust.H8609H8242H1539H5953H7161H608316My face has grown red with weeping, and the shadow of death covers my eyes,H6440H2560H1065H6079H675717although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.H2555H3709H8605H213418Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help find no resting place.H776H3680H1818H2201H472519Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is in the heights!H5707H8064H7717H479120My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.H7453H3887H5869H1811H43321I wish that someone might arbitrate between a man and God just as a man [pleads] for his friend.H3198H1397H433H120H1121H745322For [only] a few years will pass before I go the way of no return.H4557H8141H857H1980H734H7725