Parallel Bible results for "job 16:1-7"

Job 16:1-7

New Revised Standard NRS

1 Then Job answered:

2 "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

3 Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?

4 I also could talk as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

5 I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

6 "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

7 Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

New International Version NIV

1 Then Job replied:

2 “I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!

3 Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?

4 I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.

5 But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

6 “Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

7 Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.