Job 16:1-13 ▼

1 Then Job, answering, said:

2 I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.

3 Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?

4 I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul. <V 16:5>I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.

5 <V 6:6>I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.

6 <V 16:7>But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me.

7 <V 16:8>But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.

8 <V 16:9>My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.

9 <V 16:10>He has gathered together his fury towards me, and, threatening me, he has roared against me with his teeth; my enemy has beheld me with terrible eyes.

10 <V 16:11>They have opened their mouths against me, and, reproaching me, they have struck me on the cheek; they are nourished by my sufferings.

11 <V 16:12>God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.

12 <V 16:13>I, who once was wealthy, am now crushed. He has grabbed me by my neck; he has broken me and has place me before him as a sign.

13 <V 16:14>He has surrounded me with his lances. He has severely wounded my lower back, he has not been lenient, and he has poured out my organs upon the earth.