Job 16
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1Then Job answered and said:1In response, Job said:
2“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.2"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are!
3Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?3Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?
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.4"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you
5I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.5and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain.
6“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?6"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?"
7Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.7"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world.
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've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me 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 me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me.
10Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.10People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me.
11God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.11God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control 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;12"He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces— then he really made me 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, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground.
14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.14Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior.
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.15"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust.
16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,16My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids,
17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.17even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure."
18“O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.18"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest.
19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.19Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high.
20My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,20My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,
21that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.21crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor.
22For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.22For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."
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