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1Then Job answered:

1In response, Job said:

2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

2"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are!

3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

3Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?

4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

4"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you

5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

5and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain.

6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

6"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?"

7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

7"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world.

8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

8You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face.

9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

9His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me.

10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

10People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me.

11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

11God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked.

12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

12"He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces— then he really made me his target.

13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

13His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground.

14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

14Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior.

15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

15"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust.

16My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

16My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids,

17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

17even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure."

18O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.

18"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest.

19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

19Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high.

20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

20My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,

21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

21crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor.

22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

22For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."

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