Job 16:1-6

Jubilee Bible 2000

16 ¶ Then Job answered and said,

² Many times I have heard such things; miserable comforters are ye all.

³ Shall vain words have an end? Or what is it that emboldens thee to answer?

⁴ I also could speak as ye do. I wish your soul were in my soul’s stead, that I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would assuage the pain.

⁶ ¶ Though if I speak, my pain does not cease; and if I forbear to speak, it does not depart from me.