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Job: Poor Comforters are You
Then Job answered and said,
Then Job answered and said,
Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You
Then Job answered and said:
Then Job answered and said:
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
“I have heard many such things;
miserable comforters are you all.
miserable comforters are you all.
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Shall windy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
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.
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
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.
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
“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?
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
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.
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
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.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against 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.
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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.
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
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;
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
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.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
He breaks me with breach upon breach;
he runs upon me like a warrior.
he runs upon me like a warrior.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin
and have laid my strength in the dust.
and have laid my strength in the dust.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
My face is red with weeping,
and on my eyelids is deep darkness,
and on my eyelids is deep darkness,
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
although there is no violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
and my prayer is pure.
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
“O earth, cover not my blood,
and let my cry find no resting place.
and let my cry find no resting place.
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
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.
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
My friends scorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,
my eye pours out tears to God,
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!