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