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16:1  I have heard words like that before; the comfort you give is only torment.
16:2  I have heard words like that before; the comfort you give is only torment.
16:3  Are you going to keep on talking forever? Do you always have to have the last word?
16:4  If you were in my place and I in yours, I could say everything you are saying. I could shake my head wisely and drown you with a flood of words.
16:5  I could strengthen you with advice and keep talking to comfort you.
16:6  But nothing I say helps, and being silent does not calm my pain.
16:7  You have worn me out, God; you have let my family be killed.
16:8  You have seized me; you are my enemy. I am skin and bones, and people take that as proof of my guilt.
16:9  In anger God tears me limb from limb; he glares at me with hate.
16:10  People sneer at me; they crowd around me and slap my face.
16:11  God has handed me over to evil people.
16:12  I was living in peace, but God took me by the throat and battered me and crushed me. God uses me for target practice
16:13  and shoots arrows at me from every side— arrows that pierce and wound me; and even then he shows no pity.
16:14  He wounds me again and again; he attacks like a soldier gone mad with hate.
16:15  I mourn and wear clothes made of sackcloth, and I sit here in the dust defeated.
16:16  I have cried until my face is red, and my eyes are swollen and circled with shadows,
16:17  but I am not guilty of any violence, and my prayer to God is sincere.
16:18  O Earth, don't hide the wrongs done to me! Don't let my call for justice be silenced!
16:19  There is someone in heaven to stand up for me and take my side.
16:20  My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.
16:21  I want someone to plead with God for me, as one pleads for a friend.
16:22  My years are passing now, and I walk the road of no return.