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¹ THEN Job answered and said,² I have heard many such things; wicked comforters are you all.³ Do not grieve my spirit with words; even though you speak, I will not answer.⁴ I also could speak as you do; I wish you were in my place, then I could try you out with words, and shake my head at you.⁵ I would prove you with your own words, and the words of my lips would not spare you.

⁶ If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, who can comfort me?⁷ But now he has troubled me, and yet has preserved all of my testimony.⁸ Thou didst appoint me and I became a witness, but my lies have testified against me; and I spoke in his presence.⁹ He has torn me and broken me in his wrath; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes against me.¹⁰ They have gaped upon me with their mouth reproachfully; they have smitten me upon my cheeks; they were filled with rage against me.¹¹ God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.¹² I was at ease, but he has smitten me; he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his target.¹³ His arrows are round about me, he shoots at my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.¹⁴ He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs against me like a giant.¹⁵ I have girded sackcloth upon my skin, and I have covered my head with dust.¹⁶ My face is troubled with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

¹⁷ But not for any iniquity in my hands; my prayer also is pure.¹⁸ O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no place!¹⁹ And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my acquaintances are on high.²⁰ O my brethren and my neighbors! my eyes pour out tears to God!²¹ O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!²² For the number of a mans years will come to an end; then he shall go the way from whence he shall not return.