Job 16
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1Then Job replied:1Then Job answered:
2"I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
3Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
4I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
5But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
6"Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
7Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
8You have shriveled me up--and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
9God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
10People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
11God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
12All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
13his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
14Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
15"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
16My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;16My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
17yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
18"Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!18O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
19Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
21on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
22"Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
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