Job 16
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New American Standard Bible 1995Holman Christian Standard Bible
1Then Job answered,1Then Job answered:
2"I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all.2I have heard many things like these. You are all miserable comforters.
3"Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer?3Is there no end to your empty words? What provokes you that you continue testifying?
4"I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.4If you were in my place I could also talk like you. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.
5"I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.5Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.
6"If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?6Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, what have I lost?
7"But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company.7Surely He has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family.
8"You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.8You have shriveled me up--it has become a witness; My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
9"His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me.9His anger tears at me, and He harasses me. He gnashes His teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with His eyes.
10"They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join themselves together against me.
11"God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.11God hands me over to unjust men; He throws me into the hands of the wicked.
12"I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target.12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the scruff of the neck and smashed me to pieces. He set me up as His target;
13"His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground.13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and pours my bile on the ground.
14"He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior.14He breaks through my defenses again and again; He charges at me like a warrior.
15"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin And thrust my horn in the dust.15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my strength in the dust.
16"My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness is on my eyelids,16My face has grown red with weeping, and darkness covers my eyes,
17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.17although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.
18"O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there be no resting place for my cry.18Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help find no resting place.
19"Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high.19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is in the heights!
20"My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.20My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.
21"O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!21I wish that someone might arbitrate between a man and God just as a man pleads for his friend.
22"For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.22For only a few years will pass before I go the way of no return.
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