Then Job answered and said,… Then Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all {miserable: or, troublesome} Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? {vain…: Heb. words of wind} 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. {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? {what…: Heb. what goeth from me?} 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. God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. {hath…: Heb. hath shut me up} 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.