Job 16:1-13 ▼

1 And Job answered and said:

2 “I have heard many such things, all of you? comforters of trouble.

3 Is an end to words of wind? Or what compels you that you answer?

4 I also could speak as you?, if your? soul were in place of my soul; I could join together words against you?, and shake at you? with my head.

5 I could strengthen you? with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would bring relief.

6 If I speak, my sorrow is not relieved; and if I cease, how will it go from me?

7 Surely now He has worn me out; You have devastated all my company.

8 You have bound me—it is a witness; and my leanness rises up against me; it testifies against my face.

9 In His anger He tears me and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; My adversary sharpens His eyes against me.

10 They gape at me with their mouth, in scorn they strike my cheeks; as one they mass themselves against me.

11 God shuts me up to the ungodly, and upon the hands of the wicked He wrings me out.

12 I was at ease, and He broke me; and He seized me by my neck and shattered me, and stood me up for Him as a target.

13 His archers circle round against me; He splits my kidneys and does not spare; He pours out my gall on the ground.