Job Says Friends Are Sorry Comforters
Then Job 1answered,Lit answered and said
2 “I have heard many such things;1aSorry comforters are you all.Lit Comforters of troubleJob 13:4; 21:343 “Is there no limit to awindy words?Or what plagues you that you answer?Job 6:264 “I too could speak like you,If 1I were in your place.I could compose words against youAnd ashake my head at you.Lit your soul were in place of my soulPs 22:7; 109:25; Zeph 2:15; Matt 27:395 “I could strengthen you with my mouth,And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.
Job Says God Shattered Him
6 “If I speak, amy pain is not lessened,And if I hold back, what has left me?Job 9:27, 287 “But now He has aexhausted me;You have laid bwaste all my company.Job 7:3Job 16:20; 19:13-158 “You have shriveled me up,aIt has become a witness;And my bleanness rises up against me,It testifies to my face.Job 10:17Job 19:20; Ps 109:249 “His anger has atorn me and 1hunted me down,He has bgnashed at me with His teeth;My cadversary 2glares at me.Lit borne a grudge against meLit sharpens his eyesJob 19:11; Hos 6:1Ps 35:16; Lam 2:16; Acts 7:54Job 13:24; 33:1010 “They have agaped at me with their mouth,They have 1bslapped me on the cheek with contempt;They have cmassed themselves against me.Lit struckPs 22:13Is 50:6; Lam 3:30; Acts 23:2Job 30:12; Ps 35:1511 “God hands me over to ruffiansAnd tosses me into the hands of the wicked.12 “I was at ease, but aHe shattered me,And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;He has also set me up as His btarget.Job 9:17Job 7:20; Lam 3:1213 “His aarrows surround me.Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;He pours out bmy gall on the ground.Job 6:4; 19:12; 25:3Job 20:2514 “He abreaks through me with breach after breach;He bruns at me like a warrior.Job 9:17Joel 2:715 “I have sewed asackcloth over my skinAnd bthrust my horn in the dust.Gen 37:34; Ps 69:11Ps 7:516 “My face is flushed from aweeping,bAnd deep darkness is on my eyelids,Job 16:20Job 24:1717 Although there is no aviolence in my hands,And bmy prayer is pure.Is 59:6; Jon 3:8Job 27:4
18 “O earth, do not cover my blood,And let there be no resting place for my cry.19 “Even now, behold, amy witness is in heaven,And my 1advocate is bon high.Or witnessGen 31:50; Job 19:25-27; Rom 1:9; Phil 1:8; 1 Thess 2:5Job 31:220 “My friends are my scoffers;aMy eye 1weeps to God.Or dripsJob 17:721 “O that a man might plead with GodAs a man with his neighbor!22 “For when a few years are past,I shall go the way aof no return.Job 3:13