Job - Chapter 16 | Good News Translation

  • 1. I have heard words like that before; the comfort you give is only torment.
  • 2. {cf15I (SEE 16:1)}
  • 3. Are you going to keep on talking forever? Do you always have to have the last word?
  • 4. If you were in my place and I in yours, I could say everything you are saying. I could shake my head wisely and drown you with a flood of words.
  • 5. I could strengthen you with advice and keep talking to comfort you.
  • 6. But nothing I say helps, and being silent does not calm my pain.
  • 7. You have worn me out, God; you have let my family be killed.
  • 8. You have seized me; you are my enemy. I am skin and bones, and people take that as proof of my guilt.
  • 9. In anger God tears me limb from limb; he glares at me with hate.
  • 10. People sneer at me; they crowd around me and slap my face.
  • 11. God has handed me over to evil people.
  • 12. I was living in peace, but God took me by the throat and battered me and crushed me. God uses me for target practice
  • 13. and shoots arrows at me from every side--- arrows that pierce and wound me; and even then he shows no pity.
  • 14. He wounds me again and again; he attacks like a soldier gone mad with hate.
  • 15. I mourn and wear clothes made of sackcloth, and I sit here in the dust defeated.
  • 16. I have cried until my face is red, and my eyes are swollen and circled with shadows,
  • 17. but I am not guilty of any violence, and my prayer to God is sincere.
  • 18. O Earth, don't hide the wrongs done to me! Don't let my call for justice be silenced!
  • 19. There is someone in heaven to stand up for me and take my side.
  • 20. My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.
  • 21. I want someone to plead with God for me, as one pleads for a friend.
  • 22. My years are passing now, and I walk the road of no return.
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