Job 16:1-10

Job 1Then Job replied:

2“I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!

3Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?

4I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.

5But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

6“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

7Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

8You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

9God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.

10People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.