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1Then Job replied:

1In response, Job said:

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8You have shriveled me up--and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and 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 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 me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me.

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

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

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

11God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control 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;

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. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.

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

14Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes 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 sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 on high.

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

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

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

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

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

22"Only a few years will pass before I take the path 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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