1. Then Job answered,
2.
“I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all.
3.
-“Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer?
4.
-“I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.
5.
-“I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.
6.
“If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?
7.
-“But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company.
8.
-“You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
9.
-“His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me.
10.
-“They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.
11.
-“God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
12.
-“I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target.
13.
-“His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground.
14.
-“He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior.
15.
-“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin And thrust my horn in the dust.
16.
-“My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness is on my eyelids,
17.
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
JOB (17:16)
18.
“O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there be no resting place for my cry.
19.
-“Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high.
20.
-“My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.
21.
-“O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!
22.
-“For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.
1. Then Job answered,
2.
“I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all.
3.
-“Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer?
4.
-“I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.
5.
-“I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.
6.
“If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?
7.
-“But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company.
8.
-“You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
9.
-“His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me.
10.
-“They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.
11.
-“God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
12.
-“I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target.
13.
-“His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground.
14.
-“He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior.
15.
-“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin And thrust my horn in the dust.
16.
-“My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness is on my eyelids,
17.
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
JOB (17:16)
18.
“O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there be no resting place for my cry.
19.
-“Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high.
20.
-“My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.
21.
-“O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!
22.
-“For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.
