¹Then Job answered: ²“I have heard many things like these; ³Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? ⁴I could also speak like you ⁵But I would encourage you with my mouth, ⁶Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, ⁷Surely He has now exhausted me; ⁸You have bound me, and it has become a witness; ⁹His anger has torn me and opposed me; ¹⁰They open their mouths against me ¹¹God has delivered me to unjust men; ¹²I was at ease, but He shattered me; ¹³His archers surround me. ¹⁴He breaks me with wound upon wound; ¹⁵I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; ¹⁶My face is red with weeping, ¹⁷yet my hands are free of violence ¹⁸O earth, do not cover my blood; ¹⁹Even now my witness is in heaven, ²⁰My friends are my scoffers ²¹Oh, that a man might plead with God ²²For when only a few years are past