Job 16
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1Then Job answered and said:1Then Job replied:
2“I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!2"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
3Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?3Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
4I also could speak as you do, If your soul were in my soul’s place. I could heap up words against you, And shake my head at you;4I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.5But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
6“Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased?6"But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking--how much of it goes away?
7But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company.7Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
8You have shriveled me up, And it is a witness against me; My leanness rises up against me And bears witness to my face.8You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.
9He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; My adversary sharpens His gaze on me.9His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.
10They gape at me with their mouth, They strike me reproachfully on the cheek, They gather together against me.10People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.
11God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.11God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.
12I was at ease, but He has shattered me; He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces; He has set me up for His target,12I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
13His archers surround me. He pierces my heart and does not pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He runs at me like a warrior.14He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.
15“I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, And laid my head in the dust.15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;
16My face is flushed from weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;16my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,
17Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.17although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.
18“O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no resting place!18"O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.
19Surely even now my witness is in heaven, And my evidence is on high.19Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
20My friends scorn me; My eyes pour out tears to God.20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
21Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor!21and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
22For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return.22For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
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