1. Then Job answered and said,
2. I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.
3. Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?
4. 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.
5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would relieve your grief.
6. Though I speak, my grief is not relieved: and though I forbear, how am I eased?
7. But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.
8. And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.
9. He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.