1<\/sup>Then Job, answering, said:<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul. I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>He has gathered together his fury towards me, and, threatening me, he has roared against me with his teeth; my enemy has beheld me with terrible eyes.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>They have opened their mouths against me, and, reproaching me, they have struck me on the cheek; they are nourished by my sufferings.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>I, who once was wealthy, am now crushed. He has grabbed me by my neck; he has broken me and has place me before him as a sign.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>He has surrounded me with his lances. He has severely wounded my lower back, he has not been lenient, and he has poured out my organs upon the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>He has cut me with wound after wound. He has rushed upon me like a giant.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have covered my body with ashes.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>These things I have endured without iniquity in my hand, while I held pure prayers before God.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>O earth, do not conceal my blood, nor let my outcry find a hiding place in you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant!<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>For behold, a few years pass by, and I am walking a path by which I will not return.<\/span> <\/p>\n