Job 16
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New Living TranslationNew American Standard Bible 1995
1Then Job spoke again:1Then Job answered,
2“I have heard all this before. What miserable comforters you are!2"I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all.
3Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air? What makes you keep on talking?3"Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer?
4I could say the same things if you were in my place. I could spout off criticism and shake my head at you.4"I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.
5But if it were me, I would encourage you. I would try to take away your grief.5"I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.
6Instead, I suffer if I defend myself, and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.6"If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?
7“O God, you have ground me down and devastated my family.7"But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company.
8As if to prove I have sinned, you’ve reduced me to skin and bones. My gaunt flesh testifies against me.8"You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
9God hates me and angrily tears me apart. He snaps his teeth at me and pierces me with his eyes.9"His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me.
10People jeer and laugh at me. They slap my cheek in contempt. A mob gathers against me.10"They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.
11God has handed me over to sinners. He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.11"God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
12“I was living quietly until he shattered me. He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces. Then he set me up as his target,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.
13and now his archers surround me. His arrows pierce me without mercy. The ground is wet with my blood.13"His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground.
14Again and again he smashes against me, charging at me like a warrior.14"He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior.
15I wear burlap to show my grief. My pride lies in the dust.15"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin And thrust my horn in the dust.
16My eyes are red with weeping; dark shadows circle my eyes.16"My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness is on my eyelids,
17Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure.17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
18“O earth, do not conceal my blood. Let it cry out on my behalf.18"O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there be no resting place for my cry.
19Even now my witness is in heaven. My advocate is there on high.19"Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high.
20My friends scorn me, but I pour out my tears to God.20"My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.
21I need someone to mediate between God and me, as a person mediates between friends.21"O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!
22For soon I must go down that road from which I will never return.22"For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.
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