1And Job answered and said:
2I have heard many such things; comforters of trouble are you all.
3Is there an end to words of spirit (ruach)? Or what provokes you that you answer?
4I also could speak like you, if your soul (nephesh) were in the place of my soul (nephesh); I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.
5I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would hold back (your grief).
6If I speak, my pain is not held back; and if I forbear, what goes from me?
7But now He has wearied me; You have made desolate all my company.
8And You have shriveled me up — it has become a witness; and my leanness rises up against me, it answers to my face.
9His anger has torn me and hated me; He has gnashed at me with His teeth; my adversary sharpens his eyes at me.
10They have gaped at me with their mouth; in reproach they have struck my cheeks; together they mass themselves against me.
11God delivers me up to the unjust, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12I was at ease, and He shattered me; and He grasped me by my neck and dashed me to pieces; and He set me up for Himself as a target.
13His archers surround me; He splits my kidneys and does not spare; He pours out my gall to the ground.
14He breaks me, breach upon the face of breach; He runs at me like a mighty man.
15Sackcloth I have sewn upon my skin, and I have laid my horn in the dust (aphar).
16My face is reddened from weeping, and upon my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17although there is no violence in my palms, and my prayer is pure.
18O earth, do not cover my blood, and let there be no place for my cry.
19Even now, behold, my witness is in the heavens, and He who testifies for me is in the heights.
20My intercessors are my friends; to God my eye pours out tears.
21And that He would arbitrate for a man with God, and for a son of man (adam) with his neighbor.
22For the years of number are coming, and the path by which I shall not return I shall walk.