And Job answered and said,
I have heard many such things,{HR}And comforters of distress [are] ye all.
Are windy words at an end?{HR}Or what vexeth thee that thou answerest?
I also could speak like you,{HR}If your soul were instead of my soul,{HR}I could weave words against you,{HR}And shake my head at you;
With my mouth I could strengthen you,{HR}And the commiseration of my life could assuage.
If I speak my pain is not assuaged,{HR}And if I forbear, what departeth from me?
Surely now he hath exhausted me,{HR}Thou hast desolated all my company, and bound me;
It became a witness, and rose up against me,{HR}My leanness accuseth me to the face;
His wrath hath torn and warred on me;{HR}He hath gnashed on me with his teeth;{HR}Mine enemy whetteth his eyes on me.
They gaped at me with their mouth,{HR}With reproach they smote my cheeks.{HR}They strengthen themselves together against me.
God hath shut me up to the unrighteous,{HR}And thrown me over into the hand of the wicked.
I sat at ease, and he smashed me,{HR}And seized me by the neck, and dashed me,{HR}And set me as a mark for himself;
His arrows compassed me about;{HR}He cleaveth my reins, and spareth not.{HR}He poureth out my gall on the ground.
He breaketh me breach upon breach,{HR}He runneth upon me like a warrior.
I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,{HR}And stuck my horn into the dust.
My face is red with weeping,{HR}And on mine eyelids [is] death shade,
Though no violence [is] in my hands,{HR}And my prayer [is] pure.
O earth, cover thou not my blood,{HR}And let my cry have no place.
Even now, behold, my witness [is] in the heavens,{HR}And my testifier in the heights.
My mockers [are] my friends;{HR}Mine eye poureth out to God,
That he would decide for the man with God,{HR}As a son of man for his friend;
My years of number come,{HR}And I go the way I shall not return.