translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: JOB

book: Job

text: Then Job answered and said,


text: I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.


text: Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?


text: I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.


text: But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.


text: Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?


text: But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.


text: And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.


text: He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.


text: They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.


text: God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.


text: I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.


text: His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.


text: He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.


text: I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.


text: My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;


text: Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.


text: O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no resting-place.


text: Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high.


text: My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,


text: That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!


text: For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.