16Job 16

1Then Job answered and said,Select Job 16:1

2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.Select Job 16:2

3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?Select Job 16:3

4I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.Select Job 16:4

5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.Select Job 16:5

6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?Select Job 16:6

7But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.Select Job 16:7

8And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.Select Job 16:8

9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes on me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes on me.Select Job 16:9

10They have gaped on me with their mouth; they have smitten me on the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.Select Job 16:10

11God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.Select Job 16:11

12I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.Select Job 16:12

13His archers compass me round about, he splits my reins asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.Select Job 16:13

14He breaks me with breach on breach, he runs on me like a giant.Select Job 16:14

15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.Select Job 16:15

16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;Select Job 16:16

17Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.Select Job 16:17

18O earth, cover not you my blood, and let my cry have no place.Select Job 16:18

19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.Select Job 16:19

20My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears to God.Select Job 16:20

21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!Select Job 16:21

22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way from where I shall not return.Select Job 16:22