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16:1  Then Iyov answered and said,
16:2  I have heard many such things; menachamei amal (miserable comforters) are ye all.
16:3  Shall divrei ruach (vain words) have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
16:4  I also could speak as ye do; if your nefesh were in place of my nefesh, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
16:5  But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my shfatayim (lips) should relieve your grief.
16:6  Though I speak, my grief is not relieved, and though I forbear, mah (what) alleviation is it for me?
16:7  But now He hath worn me out; Thou hast made desolate kol adat (whole household) of me.
16:8  And Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is an ed (witness) against me; and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
16:9  He teareth me in his wrath, who warreth against me; He gnasheth upon me with His shinayim (teeth); mine adversary sharpeneth His eyes against me.
16:10  They have struck at me with their mouth; they have struck me upon the lekhi (cheek) reproachfully; [Isa 50:6; Lam 3:30] they have conspired themselves together against me.
16:11  El hath delivered me to evil men, and turned me over into the hands of the resha’im.
16:12  I was at ease, but He hath shattered me; He hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for His mattarah (object of attack, target).
16:13  His archers surround me, He pierces my klayot (kidneys), and doth not show mercy; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
16:14  He bursteth upon me again and again; He runneth upon me like a gibbor (warrior).
16:15  I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and laid my keren (horn, strength) in the aphar (dust).
16:16  My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the tzalmavet;
16:17  Not for any chamas in mine hands; also my tefillah is pure.
16:18  O earth, cover not thou my dahm, and let my outcry have no makom (place of rest).
16:19  Also now, hinei, my Ed is in Shomayim, and my Sahed (witness, one who vouches for me) is on high [MJ 4:15].
16:20  My friends scorn me; but mine eye poureth out tears unto Eloah.
16:21  O that one might plead for a man with Eloah, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!
16:22  When a few shanot are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.