| Job 16:1 |
Then Job answered and said, |
| Job 16:2 |
I have heard many such things; / Troubling comforters are you all. |
| Job 16:3 |
Do words of wind have an end? / Or what has provoked you that you [so] respond? |
| Job 16:4 |
I also could speak like you, / If your soul were in my soul's stead; / I could join [my] words together against you / And shake my head at you. |
| Job 16:5 |
I could strengthen you with my mouth, / And the movement of my lips would mitigate [your pain.] |
| Job 16:6 |
If I speak, my pain is not mitigated; / And if I forbear, how much departs from me? |
| Job 16:7 |
But now He has worn me out; / You have desolated all my company. |
| Job 16:8 |
And You have seized me; it is a testimony [against me;] / And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face. |
| Job 16:9 |
In His wrath He has torn [me] to pieces and been adverse toward me; / He has gnashed His teeth at me. / My Adversary sharpens His eyes at me. |
| Job 16:10 |
With their mouth they gape at me; / They strike my cheek reproachfully; / They mass themselves together against me. |
| Job 16:11 |
God has delivered me over to the unjust / And cast me down into the hands of the wicked. |
| Job 16:12 |
I was at ease, and He broke me apart; / Indeed He took me by my neck and dashed me to pieces. / And He set me up as His target; |
| Job 16:13 |
His archers surrounded me; / He split open my kidneys and did not desist; / He poured out my gall upon the earth. |
| Job 16:14 |
He broke me open with breach upon breach; / He ran at me like a mighty man [of war.] |
| Job 16:15 |
I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin / And have cast my horn into the dust. |
| Job 16:16 |
My face is reddened with weeping, / And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; |
| Job 16:17 |
Though there is no violence in my hands, / And my prayer is pure. |
| Job 16:18 |
O earth, do not cover my blood; / And let there be no [resting] place for my crying out. |
| Job 16:19 |
Even now, there in heaven is my Witness, / And He who vouches for me is in the heights. |
| Job 16:20 |
My friends deride me; / My eye pours out tears to God, |
| Job 16:21 |
That He would plead for a man [in his case] with God / And for a son of man [in his case] with his neighbor. |
| Job 16:22 |
For when years [few] in number have come, / I will go the way from which I cannot return. |