Job 16

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¹ Job spoke next. He said:	¹ Then Job answered:
² How often have I heard al this before! What sorry comforters you are!	² "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
³ 'When wil these windy arguments be over?' or again, 'What sickness drives you to defend yourself?'	³ Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
⁴ Oh yes! I too could talk as you do, if you were in my place; I could overwhelm you with speeches,shaking my head over you,	⁴ I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
⁵ and speak words of encouragement, and then have no more to say.	⁵ I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
⁶ When I speak, my suffering does not stop; if I say nothing, is it in any way reduced?	⁶ "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
⁷ And now it is driving me to distraction; you have struck my whole acquaintanceship with horror,	⁷ Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
⁸ now it rounds on me, my slanderer has now turned witness, he appears against me, accusing me faceto face;	⁸ And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.
⁹ his anger tears and hounds me with gnashing teeth. My enemies look daggers at me,	⁹ He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
¹⁰ and open gaping jaws. Their sneers strike like slaps in the face; and they all set on me at once.	¹⁰ Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me.
¹¹ Yes, God has handed me over to the godless, and cast me into the hands of the wicked.	¹¹ God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
¹² I was living at peace, until he made me totter, taking me by the neck to shatter me. He has set me upas his target:	¹² I was at ease, and he broke me asunder; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target,
¹³ he shoots his arrows at me from all sides, pitilessly pierces my loins, and pours my gal out on theground.	¹³ his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
¹⁴ Breach after breach he drives through me, charging on me like a warrior.	¹⁴ He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
¹⁵ I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, thrown my forehead in the dust.	¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.
¹⁶ My face is red with tears, and shadow dark as death covers my eyelids.	¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness;
¹⁷ Nonetheless, my hands are free of violence, and my prayer is pure.	¹⁷ although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
¹⁸ Cover not my blood, O earth, and let my cry mount without cease!	¹⁸ "O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
¹⁹ Henceforth I have a witness in heaven, my defender is there on high.	¹⁹ Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.
²⁰ Interpreter of my thoughts there with God, before whom flow my tears,	²⁰ My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
²¹ let my anguish plead the cause of a man at grips with God, just as a man might defend his fel ow.	²¹ that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.
²² For the years of my life are numbered, and I am leaving by the road of no return.	²² For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

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