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¹ Then responded Job, and said: - ² I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all!³ Is there to be an end to windy words? Or what so strongly exciteth thee, that thou must respond?⁴ I also, like you, could speak, - If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head.⁵ I could make you determined, by my mouth, and then my lip-solace should restrain you.

⁶ Though I do speak, unassuaged is my stinging pain, - And, if I forbear, of what am I relieved?⁷ But, now, hath he wearied me, thou hast destroyed all my family;⁸ And, having captured me, it hath served, as a witness; and so my wasting away hath risen up against me, in my face, it answereth.⁹ His anger, hath torn and persecuted me, He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth, Mine adversary, hath sharpened his eyes for me.¹⁰ They have gaped upon me with their mouth, With reproach, have they smitten my cheek, Together, against me, have they closed their ranks.¹¹ GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong.¹² At ease, was I when he shattered me, Yea he seized me by my neck, and dashed me in pieces, then set me up for himself as a mark:¹³ His archers came round against me, He clave asunder my reins, and spared not, He poured out, on the earth, my gall:¹⁴ He made a breach in me, breach upon breach, He ran upon me, like a mighty man.¹⁵ Sackcloth, sewed I on my skin, and rolled - in the dust - my horn:¹⁶ My face, is reddened from weeping, and, upon mine eyelashes, is the death-shade: -

¹⁷ Though no violence was in my hands, and, my prayer, was pure.¹⁸ O earth! do not cover my blood, and let there be no place for mine outcry.¹⁹ Even now, lo! in the heavens, is my witness,²⁰ And, he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends are, they who scorn me, Unto GOD, hath mine eye shed tears: - ²¹ That one might plead, for a man, with GOD, - Even a son of man, for his friend!²² When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.