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1 - And Job answereth and saith: --

2 - I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters <FI>are<Fi> ye all.

3 - Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?

4 - I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

5 - I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

6 - If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease--what goeth from me?

7 - Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,

8 - And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

9 - His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.

10 - They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

11 - God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

12 - At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

13 - Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.

14 - He breaketh me--breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.

15 - Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.

16 - My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids <FI>is<Fi> death-shade.

17 - Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer <FI>is<Fi> pure.

18 - O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.

19 - Also, now, lo, in the heavens <FI>is<Fi> my witness, And my testifier in the high places.

20 - My interpreter <FI>is<Fi> my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:

21 - And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.

22 - When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.