Job 16:1-6

Evangelical Heritage Version

² I have heard many things just like these.
You are miserable comforters, all of you!
³ Is there any end to your windy words?
What provokes you to respond like this?

⁴ I also could speak just like you,
if your lives were in the same condition that my life is.
I could weave fancy words against you
and shake my head at you.
⁵ But instead, I would build you up with the words from my mouth,
and comforting words from my lips would ease your pain.
⁶ Now if I speak up, it does not lessen my pain,
and if I hold back, how much of my pain goes away?