Job Decries His Comforters
Then Job answered:
“I have heard many things like these; Job 13:4-5Jas 1:19Job 11:2-3Job 19:2-3Job 26:2-3Job 6:25Job 6:6Php 1:16
miserable comforters are you all.
Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? Job 6:26Job 15:2Job 20:3Job 32:3-6Job 8:2Mat 22:46Tit 1:11Tit 2:8
What provokes you to continue testifying?
I could also speak like you Psa 109:25Psa 22:7Lam 2:152Ki 19:21Jer 18:161Co 12:26Ecc 10:14Job 11:2
if you were in my place;
I could heap up words against you
and shake my head at you.
But I would encourage you with my mouth, Gal 6:1Isa 35:3-4Pro 27:9Job 29:25Job 4:3-4Job 6:14Pro 27:17Psa 27:14
and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, Job 10:1Psa 88:15-18Psa 77:1-9
and if I hold back, how will it go away?
Surely He has now exhausted me; Job 7:3Job 1:15-19Isa 50:4Job 10:1Job 29:5-25Job 3:17Job 7:16Mic 6:13
You have devastated all my family.
You have bound me, and it has become a witness; Job 10:17Job 19:20Psa 109:24Rut 1:21Eph 5:27Isa 10:16Isa 24:16Psa 106:15
my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
His anger has torn me and opposed me; Job 13:24Lam 2:16Psa 35:16Hos 6:1Job 19:11Act 7:54Job 10:16-17Job 13:27
He gnashes His teeth at me.
My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
They open their mouths against me Psa 35:15Psa 22:13Isa 50:6Lam 3:30Act 23:2Mic 5:1Psa 22:16-171Ki 22:24
and strike my cheeks with contempt;
they join together against me.
God has delivered me to unjust men; Psa 27:12Psa 31:8Psa 7:141Sa 24:182Co 12:7Jhn 19:16Job 1:13-19Job 2:7
He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
I was at ease, but He shattered me; Job 7:20Lam 3:11-12Lam 3:4Job 9:17Psa 44:19Ezk 29:7Job 15:26Job 29:18-19
He seized me by the neck and crushed me.
He has set me up as His target;
His archers surround me. Job 20:25Job 6:4Lam 2:11Deu 29:20Ezk 5:11Gen 49:23Job 19:27Job 6:10
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and spills my gall on the ground.
He breaks me with wound upon wound; Jdg 15:8Job 9:17Jol 2:7Lam 3:3-5Psa 42:7
He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; Gen 37:34Psa 7:51Ki 21:27Isa 22:12Psa 75:51Sa 2:10Job 30:19Psa 75:10
I have buried my horn in the dust.
My face is red with weeping, Lam 1:16Mrk 14:34Psa 102:3-5Isa 52:14Job 17:7Jon 2:1-10Psa 102:9Psa 31:9
and deep shadows ring my eyes;
yet my hands are free of violence Pro 15:8Psa 66:18-19Job 27:6-7Job 8:5-6Isa 59:6Job 11:14Job 15:20Job 15:34
and my prayer is pure.
O earth, do not cover my blood; Ezk 24:7Isa 26:21Gen 4:11Psa 66:18-19Isa 1:15Isa 58:9-10Jas 4:3-4Jer 22:29
may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
Even now my witness is in heaven, Rom 1:91Th 2:10Gen 31:501Sa 12:51Th 2:52Co 1:232Co 11:31Job 25:2
and my advocate is on high.
My friends are my scoffers Heb 5:7Psa 142:2Job 12:4-5Job 16:4Job 17:2Luk 6:11-12Psa 109:4Hos 12:4-5
as my eyes pour out tears to God.
Oh, that a man might plead with God Ecc 6:10Isa 45:9Rom 9:20Job 13:22Job 13:3Job 23:3-7Job 31:35Job 40:1-5
as he pleads with his neighbor!
For when only a few years are past Job 14:10Job 14:14Job 14:5Job 7:9-10Ecc 12:5
I will go the way of no return.