1Then Job answered and said, 2I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are all of you{+}. 3Will vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? 4I also could speak as you{+} do; If your{+} soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you{+}, And shake my head at you{+}. 5[But] I would strengthen you{+} with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage [your{+} grief]. 6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased? 7But now he has made me weary: You have made desolate all my company. 8And you have shriveled me up, [which] is a witness [against me]: And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face. 9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He has gnashed on me with his teeth: My adversary sharpens his eyes on me. 10They have gaped on me with their mouth; They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me. 11God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked. 12I was at ease, and he broke me apart; Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He has also set me up for his mark. 13His archers circle me round about; He splits my reins apart, and does not spare; He pours out my gall on the ground. 14He breaks me with breach on breach; He runs on me like a giant. 15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust. 16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; 17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. 18O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no [resting]-place. 19Even now, look, my witness is in heaven, And he who vouches for me is on high. 20My companions scoff at me: [But] my eye pours out tears to God, 21That he would maintain the right of a [noble] man with God, And of a son of man with his fellow man! 22For when a few years have come, I will go the way from where I will not return.