Job 16

1 And Job answered and said,DBY — Job 16:1

2 I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.DBY — Job 16:2

3 Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?DBY — Job 16:3

4 I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;DBY — Job 16:4

5 [But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].DBY — Job 16:5

6 If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?DBY — Job 16:6

7 But now he hath made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my family;DBY — Job 16:7

8 Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.DBY — Job 16:8

9 His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.DBY — Job 16:9

10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.DBY — Job 16:10

11 God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.DBY — Job 16:11

12 I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.DBY — Job 16:12

13 His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.DBY — Job 16:13

14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.DBY — Job 16:14

15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.DBY — Job 16:15

16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;DBY — Job 16:16

17 Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.DBY — Job 16:17

18 O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!DBY — Job 16:18

19 Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.DBY — Job 16:19

20 My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto God.DBY — Job 16:20

21 Oh that there were arbitration for a man with God, as a son of man for his friend!DBY — Job 16:21

22 For years [few] in number shall pass, and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.DBY — Job 16:22