Job 16
1. Then Job answered * and said * ,
2. I have heard * many such things:miserable comforters * are ye all.
3. Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth * thee that thou answerest * ?
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. But I would strengthen * you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage * your grief.
6. Though I speak * , my grief is not asswaged * : and though I forbear * , what am I eased * ?
7. But now he hath made me weary * : thou hast made desolate * all my company.
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 teareth * me in his wrath, who hateth * me: he gnasheth * upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth * his eyes upon 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 hath delivered * me to the ungodly, and turned me over * into the hands of the wicked.
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 compass me round about * , he cleaveth * my reins asunder * , and doth not spare * ; he poureth out * my gall upon the ground.
14. He breaketh * me with breach upon breach, he runneth * upon me like a giant.
15. I have sewed * sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled * my horn in the dust.
16. My face is foul * with weeping,and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17. Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18. O earth, cover * not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19. Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven,and my record is on high.
20. My friends scorn * me: but mine eye poureth out * tears unto God.
21. O that one might plead * for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour !
22. When a few years are come * , then I shall go * the way whence I shall not return * .
