Job - Chapter 16 | New King James Version

  • 1. Then Job answered and said:
  • 2. "I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!
  • 3. Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
  • 4. I also could speak as you do, If your soul were in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you, And shake my head at you;
  • 5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.
  • 6. "Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased?
  • 7. But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company.
  • 8. You have shriveled me up, And it is a witness against me; My leanness rises up against me And bears witness to my face.
  • 9. He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; My adversary sharpens His gaze on me.
  • 10. They gape at me with their mouth, They strike me reproachfully on the cheek, They gather together against me.
  • 11. God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.
  • 12. I was at ease, but He has shattered me; He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces; He has set me up for His target,
  • 13. His archers surround me. He pierces my heart {cf2super [21]} and does not pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.
  • 14. He breaks me with wound upon wound; He runs at me like a warrior. {cf2super [22]}
  • 15. "I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, And laid my head {cf2super [23]} in the dust.
  • 16. My face is flushed from weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
  • 17. Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
  • 18. "O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no resting place!
  • 19. Surely even now my witness is in heaven, And my evidence is on high.
  • 20. My friends scorn me; My eyes pour out tears to God.
  • 21. Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor!
  • 22. For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return.
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