Job 16:1-13 ▼

1 And Job will answer and say,

2 I heard many like there: comforters of vexation ye all.

3 Was there an end to words of wind? or what will provoke thee that thou wilt answer?

4 Also I will speak as you: if it is your soul instead of my soul, I will join together with words against you, and shake my head against you upon it.

5 I will strengthen you with my month, the moving of my lips shall hold back.

6 If I shall speak, my pain will not be held back, and shall I cease, what will go from me?

7 But now he made me weary: thou hast made desolate all mine assembly.

8 Thou wilt lay fast hold on me to be for a testimony, and my leanness will rise up in me; it will answer against my face.

9 He rent in his anger, and he will lie in wait for me, gnashing upon me with his teeth; mine enemy will sharpen his eyes against me.

10 They gaped upon me with their mouth; with reproach they struck upon my cheek; they will fill out together against me.

11 God will shut me up to the evil one, and he will cast me into the hands of the unjust.

12 I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a mark:

13 His multitudes will surround upon me, he will cleave my reins asunder, and not spare; he will pour my gall upon the earth.