Job 16:1-6

Christian Standard Bible

Job’s Reply to Eliphaz

16 Then Job answered:

²I have heard many things like these.
You are all miserable comforters.^(A)
³Is there no end to your empty^[a]^(B) words?
What provokes you that you continue testifying?
⁴If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.
⁵Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth,
and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.^(C)

⁶If I speak, my suffering is not relieved,
and if I hold back, does any of it leave me?

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Footnotes

16:3 Lit windy; Jb 15:2

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