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“I have heard many things like these;
all of you are miserable comforters.[a]
Is there a limit to windy words?
What provokes you that you answer?
I myself[b] also could talk as you,
if you were in my place;[c]
I could join against you with words,
and I could shake at you with my head.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:2 Literally “comforters of trouble”
  2. Job 16:4 Emphatic personal pronoun;
  3. Job 16:4 Literally “there is your soul in place of my soul”

“I have heard many things like these;
    you are miserable comforters,(A) all of you!(B)
Will your long-winded speeches never end?(C)
    What ails you that you keep on arguing?(D)
I also could speak like you,
    if you were in my place;
I could make fine speeches against you
    and shake my head(E) at you.

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