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Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You
Then Job answered and said:
Then Job answered and said:
Job: Poor Comforters are You
And Job answered and said,
And Job answered and said,
“I have heard many such things;
miserable comforters are you all.
miserable comforters are you all.
I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
Shall windy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
I also could speak as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
and shake my head at you.
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
and shake my head at you.
I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
I could strengthen you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].
“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
But now he hath made me weary; ... thou hast made desolate all my family;
And he has shriveled me up,
which is a witness against me,
and my leanness has risen up against me;
it testifies to my face.
which is a witness against me,
and my leanness has risen up against me;
it testifies to my face.
Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.
He has torn me in his wrath and hated me;
he has gnashed his teeth at me;
my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
he has gnashed his teeth at me;
my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.
Men have gaped at me with their mouth;
they have struck me insolently on the cheek;
they mass themselves together against me.
they have struck me insolently on the cheek;
they mass themselves together against me.
They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.
God gives me up to the ungodly
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.
I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his target;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his target;
I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
his archers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare;
he pours out my gall on the ground.
He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare;
he pours out my gall on the ground.
His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
He breaks me with breach upon breach;
he runs upon me like a warrior.
he runs upon me like a warrior.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin
and have laid my strength in the dust.
and have laid my strength in the dust.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.
My face is red with weeping,
and on my eyelids is deep darkness,
and on my eyelids is deep darkness,
My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
although there is no violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
and my prayer is pure.
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
“O earth, cover not my blood,
and let my cry find no resting place.
and let my cry find no resting place.
O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
and he who testifies for me is on high.
and he who testifies for me is on high.
Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.
My friends scorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,
my eye pours out tears to God,
My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.
Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!