18Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: 2When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk. 3Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight? 4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned...
17My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me. 2Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility. 3Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me? 4You have closed their minds to under...
16Then Job replied: 2I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all! 3Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing? 4I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine sp...
15Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: 2Would a wise man answer with empty notions or fill his belly with the hot east wind? 3Would he argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value? 4But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God....
14Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. 2He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. 3Do you fix your eye on such a one? Will you bring him before you for judgment? 4Who can bring what is...
13My eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it. 2What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. 3But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God. 4You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless phys...
12Then Job replied: 2Doubtless you are the people, and wisdom will die with you! 3But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things? 4I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called upon God a...
11Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: 2Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated? 3Will your idle talk reduce men to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock? 4You say to God, 'My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in...
10I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul. 2I will say to God: Do not condemn me, but tell me what charges you have against me. 3Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the...
9Then Job replied: 2Indeed, I know that this is true. But how can a mortal be righteous before God? 3Though one wished to dispute with him, he could not answer him one time out of a thousand. 4His wisdom is profound, his power is vast. Who has resist...
