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² "I have heard many things like these before.
What miserable comforters are you all!
³ Will there be an end to your windy words?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
⁴ I also could speak like you,
if you were in my place;
I could pile up words against you
and I could shake my head at you.
⁵ But I would strengthen you with my words;
comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

⁶ "But if I speak, my pain is not relieved,
and if I refrain from speaking
—how much of it goes away?
⁷ Surely now he has worn me out,
you have devastated my entire household.
⁸ You have seized me,
and it has become a witness;
my leanness has risen up against me
and testifies against me.
⁹ His anger has torn me and persecuted me;
he has gnashed at me with his teeth;
my adversary locks his eyes on me.
¹⁰ People have opened their mouths against me,
they have struck my cheek in scorn;
they unite together against me.
¹¹ God abandons me to evil men,
and throws me into the hands of wicked men.
¹² I was in peace, and he has shattered me.
He has seized me by the neck and crushed me.
He has made me his target;
¹³ his archers surround me.
Without pity he pierces my kidneys
and pours out my gall on the ground.
¹⁴ He breaks through against me, time and time again;
he rushes against me like a warrior.
¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
and buried my horn in the dust;
¹⁶ my face is reddened because of weeping,
and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,
¹⁷ although there is no violence in my hands
and my prayer is pure.

¹⁸ "O earth, do not cover my blood,
nor let there be a secret place for my cry.
¹⁹ Even now my witness is in heaven;
my advocate is on high.
²⁰ My intercessor is my friend
as my eyes pour out tears to God;
²¹ and he contends with God on behalf of man
as a man pleads for his friend.
²² For the years that lie ahead are few,
and then I will go on the way of no return.