- Then Job answered and said:
- "I have heard many such things;
miserable comforters are you all! (Job 13:4; Job 21:34; Psalm 69:20)
- Shall words of wind have an
end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
- I also could speak as you do, if
your soul were in my soul's place. I could heap up words against
you, and shake my head at you; (Psalm 44:14)
- But I would strengthen you with my
mouth, and the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.
- "Though I speak, my grief is not
relieved; and though I remain silent, how am I eased?
- But now He has worn me out; (Job 7:3) You have made desolate all
my company. (Job 16:20; Job 19:13-15)
- You have shrivelled me up, and it
is a witness against me; my leanness rises up against me and bears witness
to my face. (Job 10:17)
- He tears me in His wrath, and hates
me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; (Hos.
6:1) my adversary sharpens His gaze on me. (Job 13:24; Job 33:10)
- They gape at me with their mouth,
they strike me reproachfully
on the cheek, they gather together against me. (Job 21:3; Ps. 3:7; Ps. 22:13; Ps. 35:21; Lam. 3:30)
- God has delivered me to the
ungodly, (Job 1:15; Job 1:17; Job 19:6; Job 19:22) and turned me over to
the hands of the wicked.
- I was at ease, but He has
shattered me; He also has taken me by me neck, and shaken me to pieces;
He has set me up for His target, (Job
7:20; Job 9:17)
- His arches surround me. He
pierces my heart and does not pity; He pours out my gal on the ground.
- He breaks me with wound upon
wound; He runs at me like a warrior.
- "I have sewn sackcloth over my
skin, and laid my head in the dust. (Ps. 7:5)
- My face is flushed from weeping,
and my eyelids is the shadow of death;
- Although no violence is in my
hands, and my prayer is pure.
- "O earth, do not cover my blood,
and let my cry have no resting place! (Ps. 66:18)
- Surely even now my witness is in
heaven, (Rom. 1:9)
and my evidence is on high.
- My friends scorn me; my eyes pour
out tears to God.
- Oh, that one might plead for a man
with God, as a man pleads for his neighbour! (Job 23:3; Job 31:35)
- For when a few years are finished,
I shall go the way of no return. (Job
7:6-7; Eccl. 12:5)
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