1Then Job answered,
2“I have heard many such things. You are…
3Shall vain words have an end? Or what…
4I also could speak as you do. If…
5but I would strengthen you with my mouth.…
6“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided.…
7But now, God, you have surely worn me…
8You have shriveled me up. This is a…
9He has torn me in his wrath and…
10They have gaped on me with their mouth.…
11God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts…
12I was at ease, and he broke me…
13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys…
14He breaks me with breach on breach. He…
15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and…
16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness…
17although there is no violence in my hands,…
18“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry…
19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven.…
20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour…
21that he would maintain the right of a…
22For when a few years have come, I…
