Job 16 NIV NLT Parallel

Bible > Job > Job 16

◄ Job 16 ►

NIV Parallel NLT [BSB CSB ESV HCS KJV ISV NAS NET NIV NLT HEB]

New International Version

New Living Translation

1Then Job replied:

1Then Job spoke again:

2"I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!

2“I have heard all this before. What miserable comforters you are!

3Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?

3Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air? What makes you keep on talking?

4I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.

4I could say the same things if you were in my place. I could spout off criticism and shake my head at you.

5But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

5But if it were me, I would encourage you. I would try to take away your grief.

6"Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

6Instead, I suffer if I defend myself, and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.

7Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

7“O God, you have ground me down and devastated my family.

8You have shriveled me up--and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

8As if to prove I have sinned, you’ve reduced me to skin and bones. My gaunt flesh testifies against me.

9God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.

9God hates me and angrily tears me apart. He snaps his teeth at me and pierces me with his eyes.

10People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.

10People jeer and laugh at me. They slap my cheek in contempt. A mob gathers against me.

11God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.

11God has handed me over to sinners. He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.

12All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;

12“I was living quietly until he shattered me. He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces. Then he set me up as his target,

13his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.

13and now his archers surround me. His arrows pierce me without mercy. The ground is wet with my blood.

14Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.

14Again and again he smashes against me, charging at me like a warrior.

15"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.

15I wear burlap to show my grief. My pride lies in the dust.

16My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;

16My eyes are red with weeping; dark shadows circle my eyes.

17yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.

17Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure.

18"Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!

18“O earth, do not conceal my blood. Let it cry out on my behalf.

19Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.

19Even now my witness is in heaven. My advocate is there on high.

20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

20My friends scorn me, but I pour out my tears to God.

21on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.

21I need someone to mediate between God and me, as a person mediates between friends.

22"Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.

22For soon I must go down that road from which I will never return.

New International Version (NIV)

Bible Hub