(A) Det där har jag hört många gånger!
    Ni är alla bedrövliga tröstare.
Är det ingen ände
        på detta tal i vädret?
    Vad frestar dig att ta till orda?
(B) Också jag kunde tala som ni,
        om ni vore i mitt ställe.
    Jag kunde fläta samman ord mot er
        och skaka mitt huvud mot er.

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“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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“I have heard many such things;
(A)Miserable[a] comforters are you all!
Shall [b]words of wind have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
I also could speak as you do,
If your soul were in my soul’s place.
I could heap up words against you,
And (B)shake my head at you;

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:2 Troublesome
  2. Job 16:3 Empty words