Job - Chapter 16 | American Standard Version

  • 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 provoketh thee that thou answerest?
  • 4. I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.
  • 5. {cf15i But} I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage {cf15i your grief}.
  • 6. Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; 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 laid fast hold on me, {cf15i which} is a witness {cf15i against me}: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.
  • 9. He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
  • 10. They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.
  • 11. God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
  • 12. I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also 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 have laid my horn in the dust.
  • 16. My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
  • 17. Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
  • 18. O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no {cf15i resting}-place.
  • 19. Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high.
  • 20. My friends scoff at me: {cf15i But} mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
  • 21. That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
  • 22. For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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