Job 16

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Then Job answered:	1 Then Job answered and said,
2 "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.	2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3 Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?	3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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.	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 I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.	5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
6 "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?	6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7 Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.	7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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.	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 has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.	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 Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against 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 gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.	11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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,	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 surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.	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 breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.	14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.	15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness;	16 My face is foul with weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.	17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18 "O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.	18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.	19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
20 My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,	20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.	21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
22 For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.	22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.