Job 16
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1 Then Job answered and said,
2 I have heard many such things: miserable
comforters are ye all.
3 Shall vain words have an end? or what
emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye do: if
your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and
shake mine head at you.
5 But I would strengthen you with
my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
6 Though I speak, my grief is
not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast
made desolate all my company.
8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which
is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness
to my face.
9 He teareth me in his wrath, who
hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes
upon me.
10 They have gaped upon me with their
mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered
themselves together against me.
11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly,
and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me
asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and
set me up for his mark.
13 His archers compass me round about, he
cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the
ground.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach,
he runneth upon me like a giant.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,
and defiled my horn in the dust.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my
eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 Not for any
injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and
let my cry have no place.
19 Also now, behold, my witness is
in heaven, and my record is on high.
20 My friends scorn me: but mine
eye poureth out tears unto God.
21 O that one might plead for a man with
God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
22 When a few years are come, then I shall
go the way whence I shall not return.
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