| 1 | Then Job answered, |
| 2 | "I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all! | Jb 6:6 Jb 6:25 Jb 11:2 Jb 11:3 Jb 13:5 Jb 19:2 Jb 19:3 Jb 26:2 Jb 26:3 Jm 1:19 |
| 3 | Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? | Jb 6:26 Jb 8:2 Jb 15:2 |
| 4 | I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul`s place, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you. | Jb 6:2-5 Jb 6:14-5 Mt 7:12 Ro 12:15 1Co 12:26 |
| 5 | But I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you. | Jb 4:3 Jb 4:4 Jb 6:14 Jb 29:25 Ps 27:14 Pr 27:9 Pr 27:17 Isa 35:3 Isa 35:4 Ga 6:1 |
| 6 | "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased? | Jb 10:1 Ps 77:1-9 Ps 88:15-18 |
| 7 | But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company. | Jb 3:17 Jb 7:3 Jb 7:16 Jb 10:1 Ps 6:6 Ps 6:7 Pr 3:11 Pr 3:12 Isa 50:4 Mic 6:13 |
| 8 | You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face. | Jb 10:17 Ru 1:21 Eph 5:27 |
| 9 | He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He has gnashed on me with his teeth: My adversary sharpens his eyes on me. | Jb 10:16 Jb 10:17 Jb 18:4 Ps 50:22 Lam 3:10 Hos 5:14 |
| 10 | They have gaped on me with their mouth; They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me. | Ps 22:13 Ps 22:16 Ps 22:17 Ps 35:21 Lk 23:35 Lk 23:36 |
| 11 | God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked. | 1Sa 24:18 Ps 31:8 Ro 11:32 |
| 12 | I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. | Jb 1:2 Jb 1:3 Jb 3:26 Jb 29:3 Jb 29:18 Jb 29:19 |
| 13 | His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground. | Jb 6:4 Gn 49:23 Ps 7:12 Ps 7:13 |
| 14 | He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant. | Lam 3:3-5 |
| 15 | I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust. | 1Ki 21:27 Isa 22:12 |
| 16 | My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids. | Ps 6:6 Ps 6:7 Ps 31:9 Ps 32:3 Ps 69:3 Ps 102:3-5 Ps 102:9-5 Isa 52:14 Lam 1:16 |
| 17 | Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. | Jb 11:14 Jb 15:20 Jb 15:34 Jb 21:27 Jb 21:28 Jb 22:5-9 Jb 27:6 Jb 27:7 Jb 29:12-17 Jb 31:1-40 Ps 7:3-5 Ps 44:17-21 |
| 18 | "Earth, don`t cover my blood, Let my cry have no place to rest. | Jer 22:29 |
| 19 | Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high. | 1Sa 12:5 Ro 1:9 Ro 9:1 2Co 1:23 2Co 11:31 1Th 2:10 |
| 20 | My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, | Jb 16:4 Jb 12:4 Jb 12:5 Jb 17:2 |
| 21 | That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor! | Jb 9:34 Jb 9:35 Jb 13:3 Jb 13:22 Jb 23:3-7 Jb 31:35 Jb 40:1-5 Ec 6:10 Isa 45:9 Ro 9:20 |
| 22 | For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return. | Jb 14:5 Jb 14:14 |
