Job Chapter 16

• Job 16:1
  Job.
• Job 16:2
  Then Job answered,
• Job 16:3
  “I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
• Job 16:4
  Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
• Job 16:5
  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 16:6
  but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
• Job 16:7
  “Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
• Job 16:8
  But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
• Job 16:9
  You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
• Job 16:10
  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 16:11
  They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
• Job 16:12
  God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
• Job 16:13
  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 16:14
  His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
• Job 16:15
  He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.
• Job 16:16
  I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
• Job 16:17
  My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
• Job 16:18
  although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
• Job 16:19
  “Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
• Job 16:20
  Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
• Job 16:21
  My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
• Job 16:22
  that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
• Job 16:23
  For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.