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