Job 16:1-6

International Children’s Bible

² “I have heard many things like these.
    You are all painful comforters!
³ Will your long, useless speeches never end?
    What makes you keep on arguing?
⁴ I also could speak as you do
    if you were in my place.
I could make great speeches against you.
    And I could shake my head at you.
⁵ But, instead, my words would encourage you.
    I would speak words of comfort to bring you relief.

⁶ “But if I speak, my pain does not become less.
    And if I don’t speak, it still does not go away.