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1Then Job spoke again:

1In response, Job said:

2“I have heard all this before. What miserable comforters you are!

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

3Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air? What makes you keep on talking?

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

4I could say the same things if you were in my place. I could spout off criticism 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 if it were me, I would encourage you. I would try to take away your grief.

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

6Instead, I suffer if I defend myself, and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.

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

7“O God, you have ground me down and devastated my family.

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

8As if to prove I have sinned, you’ve reduced me to skin and bones. My gaunt flesh testifies against me.

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

9God hates me and angrily tears me apart. He snaps his teeth at me and pierces me with his eyes.

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

10People jeer and laugh at me. They slap my cheek in contempt. A mob gathers against me.

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

11God has handed me over to sinners. He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.

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

12“I was living quietly until he shattered me. He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces. Then he set me up as 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.

13and now his archers surround me. His arrows pierce me without mercy. The ground is wet with my blood.

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

14Again and again he smashes against me, charging at me like a warrior.

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

15I wear burlap to show my grief. My pride lies in the dust.

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

16My eyes are red with weeping; dark shadows circle my eyes.

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

17Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure.

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

18“O earth, do not conceal my blood. Let it cry out on my behalf.

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

19Even now my witness is in heaven. My advocate is there on high.

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

20My friends scorn me, but I pour out my tears to God.

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

21I need someone to mediate between God and me, as a person mediates between friends.

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

22For soon I must go down that road from which I will never 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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