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1Then Job replied:

1Then Job answered:

2"I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!

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

3Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?

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

4I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.

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.

5But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

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

6"Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

6Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, what have I lost?

7Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

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

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

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

9God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.

9His anger tears at me, and He harasses me. He gnashes His teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with His eyes.

10People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.

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

11God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.

11God hands me over to unjust men; He throws me into the hands of the wicked.

12All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;

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;

13his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.

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

14Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.

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

15"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.

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

16My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;

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

17yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.

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

18"Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!

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

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

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

20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

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

21on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.

21I wish that someone might arbitrate between a man and God just as a man pleads for his friend.

22"Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.

22For only a few years will pass before I go the way of no return.

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