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1Then Job answered and said:

1In response, Job said:

2“I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!

2"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are!

3Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

3Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?

4I also could speak as you do, If your soul were in my soul’s place. I could heap up words against you, And shake my head at you;

4"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you

5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.

5and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain.

6“Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased?

6"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?"

7But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company.

7"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world.

8You have shriveled me up, And it is a witness against me; My leanness rises up against me And bears witness to my face.

8You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face.

9He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; My adversary sharpens His gaze on me.

9His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me.

10They gape at me with their mouth, They strike me reproachfully on the cheek, They gather together against me.

10People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me.

11God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.

11God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked.

12I was at ease, but He has shattered me; He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces; He has set me up for His target,

12"He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces— then he really made me his target.

13His archers surround me. He pierces my heart and does not pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.

13His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground.

14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He runs at me like a warrior.

14Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior.

15“I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, And laid my head in the dust.

15"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust.

16My face is flushed from weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

16My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids,

17Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

17even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure."

18“O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no resting place!

18"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest.

19Surely even now my witness is in heaven, And my evidence is on high.

19Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high.

20My friends scorn me; My eyes pour out tears to God.

20My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,

21Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor!

21crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor.

22For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return.

22For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."

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