Job 16:1-13 ▼

1 Then Job responded,

2 “I have heard many things like these; Miserable comforters are you all!

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

4 “I too could speak like you, If only I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.

5 “Or I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the condolence of my lips could lessen your pain.

6 “If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I refrain, what pain leaves me?

7 “But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my group of loved ones.

8 “And you have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my infirmity rises up against me, It testifies to my face.

9 “His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My enemy glares at me.

10 “They have gaped at me with their mouths, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.

11 “God hands me over to criminals, And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

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

13 “His arrows surround me. He splits my kidneys open without mercy; He pours out my bile on the ground.