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¹ And Job answered and said:² I have heard many such things . You are all miserable comforters.³ Is there an end to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?⁴ I also could speak as you. If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could bind words against you and shake at you with my head.⁵ I might make you strong with my mouth, and the moving of my lips could spare you.

⁶ If I speak, my pain is not held back; and though I forbear, what goes from me?⁷ But now He has made me weary. You have made all my company desolate.⁸ And You have plucked me; for it is a witness, and my failure rises up against me; and it answers to my face.⁹ His anger has torn, and hated me ; He gnashes at me with His teeth; my enemy sharpens His eyes at me.¹⁰ They have gaped at me with their mouth, and scornfully struck my cheek; they gather themselves together against me.¹¹ God has delivered me to the perverse; and He has turned me over into the hands of the wicked.¹² I was at ease, but He has shattered me; yea, He has also taken hold on my neck and broken me to bits; and He has set me up as a target for Him.¹³ His archers surround me; He splits my inward parts and has no pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.¹⁴ He breaks me with break on top of break; He runs on me like a warrior.¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have thrust my horn in the dust.¹⁶ My face is reddened from weeping; and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,

¹⁷ though no violence is in my hand, and my prayer is pure.¹⁸ O earth, do not cover my blood, and let not my cry have a place.¹⁹ Even now, behold! My witness is in Heaven; and He who testifies of me is on high.²⁰ My scorners are my friends; my eye pours out tears to God.²¹ O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his friend!²² For years few in number will come; and I shall not return the way I shall go.