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