American Standard Version of 1901
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Then Job answered and said,
I have heard many such things: {Or, Wearisome}Miserable comforters are ye all.
Shall {Hebrew: words of wind.}vain words have an end?Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
I also could speak as ye do;If your soul were in my soul's stead,I could join words together against you,And shake my head at you.
But I would strengthen you with my mouth,And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged;And though I forbear, {Hebrew: what departeth from me?}what am I eased?
But now he hath made me weary:Thou hast made desolate all my company.
And thou hast {Or, shrivelled me up}laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me:And my leanness riseth up against me,It testifieth to my face.
He hath torn me in his wrath, and {Or, hated}persecuted me;He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth:Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth;They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully:They gather themselves together against me.
God delivereth me to the ungodly,And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
I was at ease, and he brake me asunder;Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces:He hath also set me up for his mark.
His {Or, arrows Or, mighty ones}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 {Or, mighty man}giant.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,And have {Or, defiled}laid my horn in the dust.
My face is red with weeping,And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Although there is no violence in my hands,And my prayer is pure.
O earth, cover not thou my blood,And let my cry {Or, have no more place}have no resting-place.
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,And he that voucheth for me is on high.
My friends scoff at me:But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
{Or, That one might plead for a man with God. As a son of man pleadeth for his neighbor}That he would maintain the right of a man with God,And of a son of man with his neighbor!
For when a few years are come,I shall go the way whence I shall not return.