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16:1  Then Job answered:
16:2  “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all!
16:3  Will windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
16:4  I also could speak as you do, if your soul were in my place. I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you;
16:5  but I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would relieve your grief.
16:6  “Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; and though I stop, how am I eased?
16:7  But now He has made me weary; You have made desolate all my company.
16:8  You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up and bears witness to my face.
16:9  He has torn me in His wrath, and He has carried a grudge against me. He has gnashed me with His teeth; my enemy sharpens His gaze upon me.
16:10  They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have struck me upon the cheek with reproach; they have gathered themselves together against me.
16:11  God has delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
16:12  I was at ease, but He has shattered me. He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for His target.
16:13  His archers surround me; He splits open my kidneys and does not pity; He pours out my gall upon the ground.
16:14  He pierces me with thrust after thrust; He rushes upon me like a warrior.
16:15  “I have sewn sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn into the dust.
16:16  My face is inflamed with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,
16:17  though not for any violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
16:18  “O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry have no resting place.
16:19  Also now, look, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
16:20  My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears unto God.
16:21  Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
16:22  “For when a few years have passed, I will go the way from which I will not return.