Job 16:1WEB
Then Job answered,
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Job 16:1WEB
Then Job answered,
Job 16:2WEB
“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
Job 16:3WEB
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 16:4WEB
I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
Job 16:5WEB
but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
Job 16:6WEB
“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
Job 16:7WEB
But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
Job 16:8WEB
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
Job 16:9WEB
He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
Job 16:10WEB
They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
Job 16:11WEB
God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12WEB
I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
Job 16:13WEB
His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
Job 16:14WEB
He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.
Job 16:15WEB
I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
Job 16:16WEB
My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
Job 16:17WEB
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Job 16:18WEB
“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
Job 16:19WEB
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
Job 16:20WEB
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
Job 16:21WEB
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
Job 16:22WEB
For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.