1. Then Iyov answered and said,
2. I have heard many such things; menachamei amal (miserable comforters) are ye all.
3. Shall divrei ruach (vain words) have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
4. I also could speak as ye do; if your nefesh were in place of my nefesh, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my shfatayim (lips) should relieve your grief.
6. Though I speak, my grief is not relieved, and though I forbear, mah (what) alleviation is it for me?
7. But now He hath worn me out; Thou hast made desolate kol adat (whole household) of me.
8. And Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is an ed (witness) against me; and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9. He teareth me in his wrath, who warreth against me; He gnasheth upon me with His shinayim (teeth); mine adversary sharpeneth His eyes against me.
10. They have struck at me with their mouth; they have struck me upon the lekhi (cheek) reproachfully; [Isa 50:6; Lam 3:30] they have conspired themselves together against me.
11. El hath delivered me to evil men, and turned me over into the hands of the resha'im.