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 provoketh thee that thou answerest?
4. I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, and shake mine head at you.
5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace 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 laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me: and my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face.