Then Job answered,
“I have heard many such things. Job 13:4-5Jas 1:19Job 11:2-3Job 19:2-3Job 26:2-3Job 6:25Job 6:6Php 1:16
You are all miserable comforters!
Shall vain words have an end? Job 6:26Job 15:2Job 20:3Job 32:3-6Job 8:2Mat 22:46Tit 1:11Tit 2:8
Or what provokes you that you answer?
I also could speak as you do. Psa 109:25Psa 22:7Lam 2:152Ki 19:21Jer 18:161Co 12:26Ecc 10:14Job 11:2
If your soul were in my soul’s place,
I could join words together against you,
and shake my head at you,
but I would strengthen you with my mouth. Gal 6:1Isa 35:3-4Pro 27:9Job 29:25Job 4:3-4Job 6:14Pro 27:17Psa 27:14
The solace of my lips would relieve you.
“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Job 10:1Psa 88:15-18Psa 77:1-9
Though I forbear, what am I eased?
But now, God, you have surely worn me out. Job 7:3Job 1:15-19Isa 50:4Job 10:1Job 29:5-25Job 3:17Job 7:16Mic 6:13
You have made all my company desolate.
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. Job 10:17Job 19:20Psa 109:24Rut 1:21Eph 5:27Isa 10:16Isa 24:16Psa 106:15
My leanness rises up against me.
It testifies to my face.
He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. Job 13:24Lam 2:16Psa 35:16Hos 6:1Job 19:11Act 7:54Job 10:16-17Job 13:27
He has gnashed on me with his teeth.
My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
They have gaped on me with their mouth. Psa 35:15Psa 22:13Isa 50:6Lam 3:30Act 23:2Mic 5:1Psa 22:16-171Ki 22:24
They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully.
They gather themselves together against me.
God delivers me to the ungodly, Psa 27:12Psa 31:8Psa 7:141Sa 24:182Co 12:7Jhn 19:16Job 1:13-19Job 2:7
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Job 7:20Lam 3:11-12Lam 3:4Job 9:17Psa 44:19Ezk 29:7Job 15:26Job 29:18-19
Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces.
He has also set me up for his target.
His archers surround me. Job 20:25Job 6:4Lam 2:11Deu 29:20Ezk 5:11Gen 49:23Job 19:27Job 6:10
He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare.
He pours out my bile on the ground.
He breaks me with breach on breach. Jdg 15:8Job 9:17Jol 2:7Lam 3:3-5Psa 42:7
He runs at me like a giant.
I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, Gen 37:34Psa 7:51Ki 21:27Isa 22:12Psa 75:51Sa 2:10Job 30:19Psa 75:10
and have thrust 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
Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
although there is no violence in my hands, 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.
“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Ezk 24:7Isa 26:21Gen 4:11Psa 66:18-19Isa 1:15Isa 58:9-10Jas 4:3-4Jer 22:29
Let my cry have no place to rest.
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. Rom 1:91Th 2:10Gen 31:501Sa 12:51Th 2:52Co 1:232Co 11:31Job 25:2
He who vouches for me is on high.
My friends scoff at me. Heb 5:7Psa 142:2Job 12:4-5Job 16:4Job 17:2Luk 6:11-12Psa 109:4Hos 12:4-5
My eyes pour out tears to God,
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, Ecc 6:10Isa 45:9Rom 9:20Job 13:22Job 13:3Job 23:3-7Job 31:35Job 40:1-5
of a son of man with his neighbor!
For when a few years have come, Job 14:10Job 14:14Job 14:5Job 7:9-10Ecc 12:5
I will go the way of no return.