1Then Job answered, 2"I have heard many such things. 3Shall vain words have an end? 4I also could speak as you do. 5but I would strengthen you with my mouth. 6"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. 7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. 8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. 9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. 10They have gaped on me with their mouth. 11God delivers me to the ungodly, 12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. 13His archers surround me. 14He breaks me with breach on breach. 15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, 16My face is red with weeping. 17Although there is no violence in my hands, 18"Earth, do not cover my blood. 19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. 20My friends scoff at me. 21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, 22For when a few years are come,