Job 16:2-3 - Compare All Versions

Jaga

Then Job defended himself: “I’ve had all I can take of your talk. What a bunch of miserable comforters! Is there no end to your windbag speeches? What’s your problem that you go on and on like this? If you were in my shoes, I could talk just like you. I could put together a terrific tirade and really let you have it. But I’d never do that. I’d console and comfort, make things better, not worse!

I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all. Shall vain words have an end? Or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

“I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all. Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer?

“I have heard many things like these. You are all painful comforters! Will your long-winded speeches never end? What makes you keep on arguing?

I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all. Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

“I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you! Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?

“I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all! Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

“I have heard many such things; Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all. “Is there no end to [your futile] words of wind? Or what plagues you [so much] that you [so boldly] answer [me like this]?

“I have heard all this before. What miserable comforters you are! Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air? What makes you keep on talking?

“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?