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Job: Poor Comforters are You
Then Job answered and said,
Then Job answered and said,
Job Says Friends Are Sorry Comforters
Then Job answered,
Then Job answered,
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
“I have heard many such things;
Sorry comforters are you all.
Sorry comforters are you all.
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
“Is there no limit to windy words?
Or what plagues you that you answer?
Or what plagues 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 too could speak like you,
If I were in your place.
I could compose words against you
And shake my head at you.
If I were in your place.
I could compose words 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 could lessen your pain.
And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Job Says God Shattered Him
“If I speak, my pain is not lessened,
And if I hold back, what has left me?
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
“But now He has exhausted me;
You have laid waste all my company.
You have laid waste 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.
“You have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness;
And my leanness rises up against me,
It testifies to my face.
It has become a witness;
And my leanness rises 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.
“His anger has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with His teeth;
My adversary glares at me.
He has gnashed at me with His teeth;
My adversary glares at me.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
“They have gaped at me with their mouth,
They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt;
They have massed themselves against me.
They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt;
They have massed themselves against me.
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
“God hands me over to ruffians
And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
And tosses 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, 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.
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also 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 arrows surround me.
Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;
He pours out my gall on the ground.
Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;
He pours out my gall on the ground.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
“He breaks through me with breach after breach;
He runs at me like a warrior.
He runs at me like a warrior.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin
And thrust my horn in the dust.
And thrust my horn in the dust.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
“My face is flushed from weeping,
And deep darkness is on my eyelids,
And deep darkness is on my eyelids,
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, do not cover my blood,
And let there be no resting place for my cry.
And let there be no resting place for my cry.
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
“Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
And my advocate is on high.
And my advocate is on high.
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
“My friends are my scoffers;
My eye weeps to God.
My eye weeps to God.
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
“O that a man might plead with God
As a man with his neighbor!
As a man with his neighbor!