Job 16:1-6

New Century Version

² “I have heard many things like these.
    You are all painful comforters!
³ Will your long-winded 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 shake my head at you.
⁵ But, instead, I would encourage you,
    and my words would bring you relief.

⁶ “Even if I speak, my pain is not less,
    and if I don’t speak, it still does not go away.