1Job replied to Eliphaz and the others:
2“I have heard things like that before;
3Will your speeches, which are only hot air, never end [RHQ]?
4If it were you three and not I who were suffering,
5But, unlike all of you, with what I said [MTY] I would encourage you
6“But now, if I talk, my pain does not decrease,
7God has now taken away all my strength,
8He has shriveled me up,
9Because God is very angry with me and hates me,
10People gape/stare at me with their mouths open to sneer at me;
11It is as though God has handed me over to ungodly people
12Previously, I was living peacefully,
13people are surrounding me and shooting arrows at me.
14It is as though [MET] I am a wall that he is breaking through;
15“Because I am mourning, I wear pieces of rough cloth that I have sewed together,
16My face is red because I have cried very much,
17All this has happened to me even though I have not acted violently toward anyone,
18When I die, I want the ground [APO] to act as though I had been murdered and cry out against those who killed me,
19But even now, I know that there is someone in heaven who will testify for me,
20My three friends scorn/ridicule me,
21I pray that the one who knows what I have done would come to plead with God for me
22I say this because within a few years I will die;