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Job 16
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1But Job answered and said,
1Then Job answered,
2I have heard many such things: poor comforters are you⌃ all.
2“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
3What! is there any reason in vain words ? or what will hinder you from answering?
3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
4I also will speak as you ⌃ [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead,
4I 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,
5then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you.
5but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
6And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.
6“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. 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, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
8But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and you have laid hold of me.
8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
9My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.
9He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on 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 on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather 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 delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me 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, 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.
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 surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
14They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground.
14He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.
15They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might.
15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
16They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.
16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
17My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.
17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
19Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.
19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
20And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
21Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let my eye weep before him.
21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
22Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbor!
22For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.