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| Job 16:1 | Then Job answered, | And Job made answer and said, |
| Job 16:2 | "I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all! | Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble. |
| Job 16:3 | Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? | May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them? |
| Job 16:4 | I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you. | It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you: |
| Job 16:5 | But I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you. | I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips. |
| Job 16:6 | "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased? | If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me? |
| Job 16:7 | But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company. | But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble. |
| Job 16:8 | You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face. | It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face. |
| Job 16:9 | He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He has gnashed on me with his teeth: My adversary sharpens his eyes on me. | I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes; |
| Job 16:10 | They have gaped on me with their mouth; They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me. | Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me. |
| Job 16:11 | God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked. | God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers. |
| Job 16:12 | I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. | I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. |
| Job 16:13 | His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground. | His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. |
| Job 16:14 | He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant. | I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war. |
| Job 16:15 | I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust. | I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust. |
| Job 16:16 | My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids. | My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark; |
| Job 16:17 | Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. | Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean. |
| Job 16:18 | "Earth, don't cover my blood, Let my cry have no place to rest. | O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place! |
| Job 16:19 | Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high. | Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high. |
| Job 16:20 | My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, | My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping, |
| Job 16:21 | That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor! | So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour. |
| Job 16:22 | For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return. | For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back. |
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