1. Then Job, answering, said:
2. I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.
3. Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?
4. I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.
5. I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.
6. I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.
7. 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.
8. But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.
9. My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.
10. 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.
11. They have opened their mouths against me, and, reproaching me, they have struck me on the cheek; they are nourished by my sufferings.
12. God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.
13. 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.