| 16 | Job | ||
| 1 | Then Job answered: | Job. Jb.16.1-17.16 | |
| 2 | "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. | ||
| 3 | Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? | ||
| 4 | I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you. | ||
| 5 | I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain. | ||
| 6 | "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me? | ||
| 7 | Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company. | ||
| 8 | And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face. | ||
| 9 | He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me. | ||
| 10 | Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me. | ||
| 11 | God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked. | ||
| 12 | I was at ease, and he broke me asunder; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target, | ||
| 13 | his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground. | ||
| 14 | He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior. | ||
| 15 | I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust. | ||
| 16 | My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness; | ||
| 17 | although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. | ||
| 18 | "O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place. | ||
| 19 | Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high. | ||
| 20 | My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, | ||
| 21 | that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbour. | ||
| 22 | For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return. | ||
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