Job Decries His Comforters 1 ULT And Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 ULT “I have heard many such things; all of you{ are} comforters of trouble. BSB BSB: “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
3 ULT { Is there} an end to words of wind? Or what compels you that you answer? BSB BSB: Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
4 ULT I also would speak like you if your souls were where my soul is. I would join words together against you and I would shake my head at you. BSB BSB: I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
5 ULT I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would relieve{ you}. BSB BSB: But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
6 ULT If I speak, my pain is not relieved, but{ if} I refrain, what goes from me? BSB BSB: Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
7 ULT But now he has exhausted me; you have devastated my whole family, BSB BSB: Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
8 ULT and you have shriveled me— it has become a witness, and my leanness rises up against me, it testifies against my face. BSB BSB: You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
9 ULT In his nose, he has torn{ me} and he has attacked me; he gnashes his teeth against me. My enemy sharpens his eyes against me. BSB BSB: His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
10 ULT They have gaped at me with their mouth; in reproach they have struck my cheek; they have gathered themselves together against me. BSB BSB: They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
11 ULT God delivers me to sinners, and into the hands of the wicked he throws me. BSB BSB: God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
12 ULT I was tranquil, but he has shattered me, and he has seized my neck and shaken me to pieces. And he has set me up as a target for him; BSB BSB: I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
13 ULT his archers have surrounded me. He pierces my kidneys and he does not spare; he pours my bile on the ground. BSB BSB: His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
14 ULT He breaches me, breach upon the face of breach; he runs against me like a warrior. BSB BSB: He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
15 ULT I have sewn sackcloth on my skin, and I have thrust my horn into the dust. BSB BSB: I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
16 ULT My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids{ is} a dark shadow, BSB BSB: My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
17 ULT although violence{ is} not in my hands and my prayer{ is} pure. BSB BSB: yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
18 ULT Earth, do not conceal my blood, and may{ there} not be a{ hiding} place for my cry. BSB BSB: O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
19 ULT Even now, behold, my witness{ is} in the heavens, and my advocate{ is} in the heights. BSB BSB: Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
20 ULT My intercessors{ are} my friends; my eye weeps to God. BSB BSB: My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
21 ULT And he will argue for a man with God, and a son of man for his neighbor. BSB BSB: Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
22 ULT For years of number will come, and I will go{ on} a path, I will not return. BSB BSB: For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
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