Job 16:1-13 ▼

1 Then Job answered and said,

2 “I have heard many such things; Troublesome comforters are you all.

3 Is there no end to windy words? Or what pains you that you answer?

4 I too could speak like you, If your soul was in the place of my soul. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.

5 I could encourage you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.

6 “If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I cease, what will go forth from me?

7 But now He has exhausted me; You have made desolate all my company.

8 You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It answers to my face.

9 His anger has torn me and hunted me down; He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary sharpens his eyes to look at me.

10 They have opened their mouth wide at me; They have struck me on the cheek in reproach; They have massed themselves against me.

11 God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

12 I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target.

13 His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground.