1. Then Job answered:
2. I have heard many things like these.You are all miserable comforters.
3. Is there no end to your empty words?What provokes you that you continue testifying?
4. If you were in my place I could also talk like you.I could string words together against youand shake my head at you.
5. Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth,and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.
6. Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,and if I hold back, what have I lost?
7. Surely He has now exhausted me.You have devastated my entire family.
8. You have shriveled me up — it has become a witness;My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.