Then Job
answered
and said,
I have heard
many such things:
miserable
comforters
are ye all.
Shall vain
words
have an end?
or what emboldeneth
thee that thou answerest?
I also could speak
as ye do: if
your soul
were
in my soul's
stead, I could heap up
words
against you, and shake
mine head
at
you.
lie under
ὑπέκειτό
hypekeito
leap in
ἐναλοῦμαι
enaloumai
But I would strengthen
you with
my mouth,
and the moving
of my lips
should asswage
your grief.
Though I speak,
my grief
is not asswaged:
and though I forbear,
what am I eased?
But now he hath made me weary:
thou hast made desolate
all my company.
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles,
which is a witness
against me: and my leanness
rising up
in me beareth witness
to my face.
He teareth
me in his wrath,
who hateth
me: he gnasheth
upon me with his teeth;
mine enemy
sharpeneth
his eyes
upon me.
They have gaped
upon me with their mouth;
they have smitten
me upon the cheek
reproachfully;
they have gathered
themselves together
against me.
point
ἀκίσιν
akisin
leap in
ἐνήλατο
enēlato
God
hath delivered
me to the ungodly,
and turned me over
into the hands
of the wicked.
I was at ease,
but he hath broken me asunder:
he hath also taken
me by my neck,
and shaken me to pieces,
and set me up
for his mark.
His archers
compass me round about,
he cleaveth
my reins
asunder,
and doth not spare;
he poureth out
my gall
upon the ground.
He breaketh
me with breach
upon
breach,
he runneth
upon me like a giant.
I have sewed
sackcloth
upon my skin,
and defiled
my horn
in the dust.
My face
is foul
with weeping,
and on my eyelids
is the shadow of death;
Not for any injustice
in mine hands:
also my prayer
is pure.
O earth,
cover
not thou my blood,
and let my cry
have no place.
Also now, behold, my witness
is in heaven,
and my record
is on high.
My friends
scorn
me: but mine eye
poureth out
tears unto God.
O that one might plead
for a man
with God,
as a man
pleadeth for his neighbour!
When a few
years
are come,
then I shall go
the way
whence I shall not return.
