Job 16
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1Then Job answered and said:1Then Job answered:
2“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.2I have heard many things like these. You are all miserable comforters.
3Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?3Is there no end to your empty words? What provokes you that you continue testifying?
4I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.4If you were in my place I could also talk like you. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.
5I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.5Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.
6“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?6Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, what have I lost?
7Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.7Surely He has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family.
8And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.8You have shriveled me up--it has become a witness; My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
9He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.9His anger tears at me, and He harasses me. He gnashes His teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with His eyes.
10Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join themselves together against me.
11God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.11God hands me over to unjust men; He throws me into the hands of the wicked.
12I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the scruff of the neck and smashed me to pieces. He set me up as His target;
13his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and pours my bile on the ground.
14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.14He breaks through my defenses again and again; He charges at me like a warrior.
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my strength in the dust.
16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,16My face has grown red with weeping, and darkness covers my eyes,
17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.17although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.
18“O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.18Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help find no resting place.
19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is in the heights!
20My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,20My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.
21that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.21I wish that someone might arbitrate between a man and God just as a man pleads for his friend.
22For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.22For only a few years will pass before I go the way of no return.
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