Job 16
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1Then Job answered: 1Then Job replied:
2I have heard many things like these. You are all miserable comforters. 2"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
3Is there no end to your empty words? What provokes you that you continue testifying? 3Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
4If you were in my place I could also talk like you. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you. 4I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.
5Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation from my lips would bring relief. 5But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
6Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, what have I lost? 6"But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking--how much of it goes away?
7Surely He has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family. 7Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
8You have shriveled me up--it has become a witness; My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face. 8You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.
9His anger tears at me, and He harasses me. He gnashes His teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with His eyes. 9His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.
10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join themselves together against me. 10People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.
11God hands me over to unjust men; He throws me into the hands of the wicked. 11God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.
12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the scruff of the neck and smashed me to pieces. He set me up as His target; 12I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and pours my bile on the ground. 13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
14He breaks through my defenses again and again; He charges at me like a warrior. 14He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.
15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my strength in the dust. 15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;
16My face has grown red with weeping, and darkness covers my eyes, 16my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,
17although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure. 17although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.
18Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help find no resting place. 18"O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.
19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is in the heights! 19Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
20My friends scoff at me as I weep before God. 20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
21I wish that someone might arbitrate between a man and God just as a man pleads for his friend. 21and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
22For only a few years will pass before I go the way of no return. 22For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
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