1Then Job answered and said,studyinterlinear
2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.studyinterlinear
3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?studyinterlinear
4I 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.studyinterlinear
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.studyinterlinear
6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?studyinterlinear
7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.studyinterlinear
8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.studyinterlinear
9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.studyinterlinear
10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.studyinterlinear
11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.studyinterlinear
12I 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.studyinterlinear
13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.studyinterlinear
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.studyinterlinear
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.studyinterlinear
16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;studyinterlinear
17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.studyinterlinear
18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.studyinterlinear
19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.studyinterlinear
20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.studyinterlinear
21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!studyinterlinear
22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.studyinterlinear