| English Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1Then Job answered and said: | 1Then Job answered, |
| 2“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. | 2"I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all. |
| 3Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? | 3"Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer? |
| 4I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you. | 4"I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you. |
| 5I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain. | 5"I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain. |
| 6“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me? | 6"If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me? |
| 7Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company. | 7"But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company. |
| 8And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face. | 8"You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face. |
| 9He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me. | 9"His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me. |
| 10Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me. | 10"They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me. |
| 11God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked. | 11"God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked. |
| 12I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target; | 12"I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target. |
| 13his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground. | 13"His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground. |
| 14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior. | 14"He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior. |
| 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust. | 15"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin And thrust my horn in the dust. |
| 16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness, | 16"My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness is on my eyelids, |
| 17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. | 17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. |
| 18“O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place. | 18"O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there be no resting place for my cry. |
| 19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high. | 19"Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high. |
| 20My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, | 20"My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God. |
| 21that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor. | 21"O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor! |
| 22For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return. | 22"For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return. |
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