Then Job answered and said,
2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
1Afei Hiob buaeɛ kaa sɛ,Under pastoral review
2Mate nneɛma a ɛtete saa bebree: mo nyinaa moyɛ awerɛkyekyefoɔ a mo ho yɛ mmɔbɔ.Under pastoral review
3Nsɛm hunu bɛba awieeɛ anaa? anaasɛ ɛdeɛn na ɛhyɛ wo den ma wobua?Under pastoral review
4Me nso mɛtumi akasa sɛdeɛ moyɛ: sɛ mo kra wɔ me kra ananmu a, anka mɛboaboa nsɛm ano atia mo, na mawoso me ti akyerɛ mo.Under pastoral review
5Nanso anka mede m'ano bɛhyɛ mo den, na m'anofafa kekaeɛ ayɛ mo yea ano aduro.Under pastoral review
6Ɛwom sɛ mekasa deɛ, nanso me yea ano nnwo: na sɛ meyɛ komm nso a, ɛdeɛn na ɛfiri me so kɔ?Under pastoral review
7Na afei wama mabrɛ: woama m'adɔm nyinaa ada mpan.Under pastoral review
8Na wode mmerɛmmerɛ ahyɛ me ma, na ɛyɛ adanseɛ tia me: na me fɔnnaeɛ a ɛsɔre wɔ me mu no di adanseɛ tia m'anim.Under pastoral review
9Ɔtete me mu wɔ n'abufuo mu, ɔno a ɔtan me: ɔtwɛre ne se gu me so; me tamfoɔ sew n'ani hwɛ me.Under pastoral review
10Wɔabue wɔn anom atia me; wɔabɔ me sotorɔ animtiaabuo mu; wɔaboaboa wɔn ho ano atia me.Under pastoral review
11Onyankopɔn de me ama wɔn a wɔnsuro no, na ɔde me ahyɛ adebɔneyɛfoɔ nsam.Under pastoral review
12Na mewɔ ahomegyeɛ mu, nanso wabubu me mu: waso me kɔn mu nso, na wawoso me ma mabubu asinasini, na wagyina me hɔ sɛ n'agyiraeɛ.Under pastoral review
13N'agyantofoɔ atwa me ho ahyia, ɔpaapae m'asaabo mu, na ɔnnkyɛ me; ɔhwie me bɔnwoma gu fam.Under pastoral review
14Ɔbubu me apaapae toa so, ɔtu mmirika ba me so sɛ ɔkɛseɛ.Under pastoral review
15Mapam ayitoma abɔ me wedeɛ so, na mede m'abɛn agu mfuturo mu.Under pastoral review
16M'anim aporɔ ɛnam osu nti, na owuo sunsuma wɔ m'ani ntokuro so;Under pastoral review
17Ɛnyɛ ntɛnkyea biara a ɛwɔ me nsam nti: na me mpaeɛbɔ nso ho te.Under pastoral review
18Ao asase, nkata me mogya so, na mma me sufrɛ nnya baabi ntena.Under pastoral review
19Afei nso, hwɛ, me danseni wɔ ɔsoro, na deɛ ɔdi me ho adanseɛ no wɔ soro.Under pastoral review
20Me nnamfonom di me ho fɛw: nanso m'ani hwie nisuo gu Onyankopɔn anim.Under pastoral review
21Ao sɛ obi bɛtumi adi ma onipa wɔ Onyankopɔn anim, sɛdeɛ onipa di ma ne yɔnko!Under pastoral review
22Sɛ mfeɛ kakraa bi ba a, ɛnneɛ mɛfa ɛkwan a merensane mmfa so mmra.Under pastoral review