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Job 16
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1But Job answered and said,
1Then Job answered and said,
2I have heard many such things: poor comforters are you⌃ all.
2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3What! is there any reason in vain words ? or what will hinder you from answering?
3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4I also will speak as you⌃ [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead,
4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you.
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
6And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.
6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?
7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and you have laid hold of me .
8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.
9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.
10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has struck me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.
11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.
12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.
13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground.
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might.
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.
16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.
17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.
19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
20And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
21Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let my eye weep before him.
21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
22Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbor!
22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.