Job 16

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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.

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