Job 16

KING JAMES BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Then Job answered and said,	1 Then Job, answering, said:
2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.	2 I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.
3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?	3 Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?
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.	4 I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.	5 I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.
6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?	6 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.
7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.	7 But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me.
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.	8 But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.
9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.	9 My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting 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.	10 He has gathered together his fury towards me, and, threatening me, he has roared against me with his teeth; my enemy has beheld me with terrible eyes.
11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.	11 They have opened their mouths against me, and, reproaching me, they have struck me on the cheek; they are nourished by my sufferings.
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.	12 God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.
13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.	13 I, who once was wealthy, am now crushed. He has grabbed me by my neck; he has broken me and has place me before him as a sign.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.	14 He has surrounded me with his lances. He has severely wounded my lower back, he has not been lenient, and he has poured out my organs upon the earth.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.	15 He has cut me with wound after wound. He has rushed upon me like a giant.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of death;	16 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have covered my body with ashes.
17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.	17 My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.	18 These things I have endured without iniquity in my hand, while I held pure prayers before God.
19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.	19 O earth, do not conceal my blood, nor let my outcry find a hiding place in you.
20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.	20 For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.
21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!	21 My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.
22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.	22 And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant!
	23 For behold, a few years pass by, and I am walking a path by which I will not return.