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| The Book of Job 16 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Basic English Online Bible (BEN) | ||||||||||||||||
| Job 16:1 | And Job made answer and said, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:2 | Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:3 | May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:4 | 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 | I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:6 | 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 he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:8 | It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:9 | 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 | 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 gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:12 | 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 bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:14 | I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:15 | 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, and my eyes are becoming dark; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:17 | Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:18 | O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place! | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:19 | Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:20 | My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:21 | 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 in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back. | |||||||||||||||
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