16Then Job answered and said:H347H6030H559

2"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.H8085H7227H5999H5162

3Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?H7307H1697H7093H4834H6030

4I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.H1696H3863H5315H3426H5315H2266H4405H5128H7218H1119

5I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.H553H1119H6310H5205H8193H2820

6"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?H1696H3511H2820H2308H1980

7Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.H3811H8074H5712

8And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.H7059H5707H3585H6965H6030H6440

9He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.H2963H639H7852H2786H8127H6862H3913H5869

10Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.H6473H6310H5221H3895H2781H4390H3162

11God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.H410H5462H5760H3399H3027H7563

12I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;H7961H6565H270H6203H6327H6965H4307

13his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.H7228H5437H6398H3629H6398H2550H8210H4845H776

14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.H6555H6556H6440H6556H7323H1368

15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.H8609H8242H1539H5953H7161H6083

16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,H6440H2560H1065H6079H6757

17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.H2555H3709H8605H2134

18"O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.H776H3680H1818H2201H4725

19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.H5707H8064H7717H4791

20My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,H7453H3887H5869H1811H433

21that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.H3198H1397H433H120H1121H7453

22For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.H4557H8141H857H1980H734H7725