Then Job
answered and said,
02 I have heard many such things: miserable
comforters are ye all.
03 Shall vain words have an end? or what
emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
04 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were
in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against
you, and shake mine head at you.
05 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and
the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
06 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and
though I forbear, what am I eased?
07 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made
desolate all my company.
08 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which
is a witness against me: and my leanness rising
up in me beareth witness to my face.
09 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he
gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy
sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they
have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully;
they have gathered themselves together against
me.
11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and
turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder:
he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me
to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13 His archers compass me round about, he
cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he
poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he
runneth upon me like a giant.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and
defiled my horn in the dust.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my
eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my
prayer is pure.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my
cry have no place.
19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and
my record is on high.
20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out
tears unto God.
21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as
a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the
way whence I shall not return.
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