1<\/sup>Then Job answered, and said:<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>For behold short years pass away and I am walking in a path by which l shall not return.<\/span> <\/p>\n