Job Says Friends Are Miserable Comforters
Then Job responded,
2 “I have heard many things like these;1aMiserable comforters are you all!Lit Comforters of troubleJob 13:4; 21:343 “Is there no end to awindy words?Or what provokes you that you answer?Job 6:264 “I too could speak like you,If only 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 “Or I could strengthen you with my mouth,And the condolence of my lips could lessen your pain.
Job Says God Shattered Him
6 “If I speak, amy pain is not lessened,And if I refrain, what pain leaves me?Job 9:27, 287 “But now He has aexhausted me;You have laid bwaste all my group of loved ones.Job 7:3Job 16:20; 19:13-158 “And You have shriveled me up,1aIt has become a witness;And my binfirmity rises up against me,It testifies to my face.I.e., Job’s conditionJob 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 cenemy 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 mouths,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 criminals,And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.12 “I was at ease, but aHe shattered me,And He has grasped me by my 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.He splits my kidneys open without mercy;He pours out bmy bile 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 skin,And 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 “Earth, do not cover my blood,And may 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 weeps to God,Job 17:721 That one might plead for a man with GodAs a son of man with his neighbor!22 “For when a few years are past,I shall go the way aof no return.Job 3:13