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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 [1] ⓐ 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 you and shake my head at you.

⁵ Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation from my lips would bring relief. ⓑ

⁶ If I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, does any of it leave me?

⁷ Surely he [2] has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family.

⁸ You have shriveled me up [3] — it has become a witness; my frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

⁹ His anger tears at me, and he harasses ⓒ me. He gnashes his teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with his eyes.

¹⁰ They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; ⓓ they join themselves together against me.

¹¹ God hands me over to the unjust; [4] he throws me to the wicked.

¹² I was at ease, but he shattered me; he seized me by the scruff of the neck and smashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target; ⓔ

¹³ his archers [5] surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and pours my bile on the ground.

¹⁴ He breaks through my defenses again and again; [6] he charges at me like a warrior. ⓕ

¹⁵ I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my strength [7] in the dust. ⓖ

¹⁶ My face has grown red with weeping, and darkness ⓗ covers my eyes,

¹⁷ although my hands are free from violence ⓘ and my prayer is pure.

¹⁸ Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help find no resting place. ⓙ

¹⁹ Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is in the heights! ⓚ

²⁰ My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.

²¹ I wish that someone might argue for a man with God ⓛ just as anyone [8] would for a friend.

²² For only a few years will pass before I go the way of no return.

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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 [1] ⓐ 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 you and shake my head at you.
5	Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation from my lips would bring relief. ⓑ
6	If I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, does any of it leave me?
7	Surely he [2] has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family.
8	You have shriveled me up [3] — it has become a witness; my frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
9	His anger tears at me, and he harasses ⓒ me. He gnashes his teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with his eyes.
10	They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; ⓓ they join themselves together against me.
11	God hands me over to the unjust; [4] he throws me to the wicked.
12	I was at ease, but he shattered me; he seized me by the scruff of the neck and smashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target; ⓔ
13	his archers [5] surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and pours my bile on the ground.
14	He breaks through my defenses again and again; [6] he charges at me like a warrior. ⓕ
15	I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my strength [7] in the dust. ⓖ
16	My face has grown red with weeping, and darkness ⓗ covers my eyes,
17	although my hands are free from violence ⓘ and my prayer is pure.
18	Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help find no resting place. ⓙ
19	Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is in the heights! ⓚ
20	My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.
21	I wish that someone might argue for a man with God ⓛ just as anyone [8] would for a friend.
22	For only a few years will pass before I go the way of no return.

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