Job 16
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1In response, Job said:1Then Job replied:
2"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are!2"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
3Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?3Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
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 you4I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.
5and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain.5But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
6"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?"6"But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking--how much of it goes away?
7"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world. 7Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
8You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face.8You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.
9His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me.9His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.
10People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me.10People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.
11God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked.11God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.
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.12I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
13His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground.13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
14Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior.14He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.
15"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust.15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;
16My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids,16my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,
17even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure."17although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.
18"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest.18"O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.
19Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high.19Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
20My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
21crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor.21and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
22For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."22For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
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