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Job Says Friends Are Sorry Comforters
Then Job answered,
Then Job answered,
Job’s Fifth Speech: A Response to Eliphaz
Then Job spoke again:
Then Job spoke again:
“I have heard many such things;
Sorry comforters are you all.
Sorry comforters are you all.
“I have heard all this before.
What miserable comforters you are!
What miserable comforters you are!
“Is there no limit to windy words?
Or what plagues you that you answer?
Or what plagues you that you answer?
Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air?
What makes you keep on talking?
What makes you keep on talking?
“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.
I could say the same things if you were in my place.
I could spout off criticism and shake my head at you.
I could spout off criticism and shake my head at you.
“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.
But if it were me, I would encourage you.
I would try to take away your grief.
I would try to take away your grief.
Job Says God Shattered Him
“If I speak, my pain is not lessened,
And if I hold back, what has left me?
Instead, I suffer if I defend myself,
and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.
and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.
“But now He has exhausted me;
You have laid waste all my company.
You have laid waste all my company.
“O God, you have ground me down
and devastated my family.
and devastated my family.
“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.
As if to prove I have sinned, you’ve reduced me to skin and bones.
My gaunt flesh testifies against me.
My gaunt flesh testifies against 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.
God hates me and angrily tears me apart.
He snaps his teeth at me
and pierces me with his eyes.
He snaps his teeth at me
and pierces me with his eyes.
“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.
People jeer and laugh at me.
They slap my cheek in contempt.
A mob gathers against me.
They slap my cheek in contempt.
A mob gathers against me.
“God hands me over to ruffians
And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
God has handed me over to sinners.
He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.
He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.
“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.
“I was living quietly until he shattered me.
He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces.
Then he set me up as his target,
He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces.
Then he set me up as his target,
“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 breaks through me with breach after breach;
He runs at me like a warrior.
He runs at me like a warrior.
Again and again he smashes against me,
charging at me like a warrior.
charging at me like a warrior.
“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin
And thrust my horn in the dust.
And thrust my horn in the dust.
I wear burlap to show my grief.
My pride lies in the dust.
My pride lies in the dust.
“My face is flushed from weeping,
And deep darkness is on my eyelids,
And deep darkness is on my eyelids,
My eyes are red with weeping;
dark shadows circle my eyes.
dark shadows circle my eyes.
Although there is no violence in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.
And my prayer is pure.
Yet I have done no wrong,
and my prayer is pure.
and my prayer is pure.
“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.
“O earth, do not conceal my blood.
Let it cry out on my behalf.
Let it cry out on my behalf.
“Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
And my advocate is on high.
And my advocate is on high.
Even now my witness is in heaven.
My advocate is there on high.
My advocate is there on high.
“My friends are my scoffers;
My eye weeps to God.
My eye weeps to God.
My friends scorn me,
but I pour out my tears to God.
but I pour out my tears to God.
“O that a man might plead with God
As a man with his neighbor!
As a man with his neighbor!
I need someone to mediate between God and me,
as a person mediates between friends.
as a person mediates between friends.