Job 16

Then Job answered and said,

I have heard many such things:

Shall vain words have an end?

I also could speak as ye do;

But I would strengthen you with my mouth,

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged;

But now he hath made me weary:

And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me:

He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me;

They have gaped upon me with their mouth;

God delivereth me to the ungodly,

I was at ease, and he brake me asunder;

His archers compass me round about;

He breaketh me with breach upon breach;

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,

My face is red with weeping,

Although there is no violence in my hands,

O earth, cover not thou my blood,

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,

My friends scoff at me:

That he would maintain the right of a man with God,

For when a few years are come,