1Then Job answered:
2“I have heard many things like these; miserable…
3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches?…
4I could also speak like you if you…
5But I would encourage you with my mouth,…
6Even if I speak, my pain is not…
7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have…
8You have bound me, and it has become…
9His anger has torn me and opposed me;…
10They open their mouths against me and strike…
11God has delivered me to unjust men; He…
12I was at ease, but He shattered me;…
13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys…
14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He…
15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I…
16My face is red with weeping, and deep…
17yet my hands are free of violence and…
18O earth, do not cover my blood; may…
19Even now my witness is in heaven, and…
20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes…
21Oh, that a man might plead with God…
22For when only a few years are past…
