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1Then Job answered:

1In response, Job said:

2I have heard many things like these. You are all miserable comforters.

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

3Is there no end to your empty words? What provokes you that you continue testifying?

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

4If you were in my place I could also talk like you. I could string words together 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

5Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.

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

6If I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, does any of it leave me?

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

7Surely he has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family.

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

8You have shriveled me up--it has become a witness; my frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

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

9His anger tears at me, and he harasses me. He gnashes his teeth at me. My enemy 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.

10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join themselves together against me.

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

11God hands me over to the unjust; he throws me to the wicked.

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

12I was at ease, but he shattered me; he seized me by the scruff of the neck and smashed me to pieces. 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.

13his archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and pours my bile on the ground.

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

14He breaks through my defenses again and again; he charges at me like a warrior.

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

15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my strength in the dust.

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

16My face has grown red with weeping, and darkness covers my eyes,

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

17although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.

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

18Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help find no resting place.

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

19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is in the heights!

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

20My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.

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

21I wish that someone might argue for a man with God just as anyone would for a friend.

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

22For only a few years will pass before I 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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