16THEN JOB answered,H347H6030H5592I have heard many such things; wearisome {and} miserable comforters are you all!H8085H7227H5999H51623Will your futile words of wind have no end? Or what makes you so bold to answer [me like this]?H7307H1697H7093H4834H60304I also could speak as you do, if you were in my stead; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.H1696H3863H5315H3426H5315H2266H4405H5128H7218H11195[But] I would strengthen {and} encourage you with [the words of] my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would soothe your suffering.H553H1119H6310H5205H8193H2820
Job Says God Shattered Him
6If I speak [to you miserable comforters], my sorrow is not soothed {or} lessened; and if I refrain [from speaking], in what way am I eased? [I hardly know whether to answer you or be silent.]H1696H3511H2820H2308H19807But now [God] has taken away my strength. You [O Lord] have made desolate all my family {and} associates.H3811H8074H57128You have laid firm hold on me {and} have shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness [and wretched state of body] are further evidence [against me]; [they] testify to my face.H7059H5707H3585H6965H6030H64409[My adversary Satan] has torn [me] in his wrath and hated {and} persecuted me; he has gnashed upon me with his teeth; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.H2963H639H7852H2786H8127H6862H3913H586910[The forces of evil] have gaped at me with their mouths; they have struck me upon the cheek insolently; they massed themselves together {and} conspired unanimously against me.H6473H6310H5221H3895H2781H4390H316211God has delivered me to the ungodly (to the evil one) and cast me [headlong] into the hands of the wicked (Satan's host).H410H5462H5760H3399H3027H756312I was living at ease, but [Satan] crushed me {and} broke me apart; yes, he seized me by the neck and dashed me in pieces; then he set me up for his target.H7961H6565H270H6203H6327H6965H430713[Satan's] arrows whiz around me. He slashes open my vitals and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.H7228H5437H6398H3629H6398H2550H8210H4845H77614[Satan] stabs me, making breach after breach {and} attacking again and again; he runs at me like a giant {and} irresistible warrior.H6555H6556H6440H6556H7323H136815I have sewed sackcloth over my skin [as a sign of mourning] and have defiled my horn (my insignia of strength) in the dust.H8609H8242H1539H5953H7161H608316My face is red {and} swollen with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death [my eyes are dimmed],H6440H2560H1065H6079H675717Although there is no guilt {or} violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.H2555H3709H8605H213418O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no resting-place [where it will cease being heard].H776H3680H1818H2201H472519Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, and He who vouches for me is on high.H5707H8064H7717H479120My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.H7453H3887H5869H1811H43321Oh, that there might be one who would plead for a man with God {and} that he would maintain his right with Him, as a son of man pleads with {or} for his neighbor!H3198H1397H433H120H1121H745322For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.H4557H8141H857H1980H734H7725