Job 16:1-6

International Standard Version

² “I’ve heard many things like this.
    What miserable comforters you all are!
³ Will windy words like yours never end?
    What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?

⁴ “I could also talk like you
    if only you were in my place!
Then I would put together an argument^[a] against you.
    I would shake my head at you
⁵ and encourage you with what I have to say;^[b]
    my words of comfort would lessen your pain.

⁶ “But if I speak, my pain isn’t assuaged;
    if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?”