Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You
1 Then Job answered and said:
2 “I have heard many such things;
lmiserable comforters are you all.
3 Shall mwindy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
4 I also could speak as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
and nshake my head at you.
5 I could strengthen 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 has1 made desolate all my company.
8 And he has shriveled me up,
which is a witness against me,
and omy leanness has risen up against me;
it testifies to my face.
9 He has torn me in his wrath and phated me;
he has gnashed his teeth at me;
my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10 qMen have gaped at me with their mouth;
they have struck me insolently on the cheek;
they mass themselves together against me.
11 God gives me up to the ungodly
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his rtarget;
13 his archers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare;
he pours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breaks me with breach upon breach;
he runs upon me like a warrior.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin
and have laid my strength in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping,
and on my eyelids is deep darkness,
17 although there is sno violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
18 “O earth, tcover not my blood,
and let my cry find no resting place.
19 Even now, behold, umy witness is in heaven,
and he who testifies for me is on high.
20 vMy friends scorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,
21 that he would argue the case of a man with God,
as2 a son of man does with his neighbor.
22 For when a few years have come
I shall go the way wfrom which I shall not return.
Jesus at the Feast of Booths
1 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would mnot go about in Judea, because the Jews1 were nseeking to kill him. 2 Now othe Jews’ pFeast of Booths was at hand. 3 So his brothers2 said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. 4 For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, qshow yourself to the world.” 5 For rnot even his brothers believed in him. 6 Jesus said to them, s“My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it thates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. 8 You go up to the feast. I am not3 going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.” 9 After saying this, he remained in Galilee.
10 But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. 11 The Jews were ulooking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” 12 And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” vothers said, “No, he is leading the people astray.” 13 Yet wfor fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.
