16Job 16

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

2I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.Select Job 16:2

3Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?Select Job 16:3

4I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.Select Job 16:4

5I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.Select Job 16:5

6I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.Select Job 16:6

7But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.Select Job 16:7

8But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.Select Job 16:8

9My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.Select Job 16:9

10He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes.Select Job 16:10

11They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.Select Job 16:11

12God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.Select Job 16:12

13I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark.Select Job 16:13

14He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth,Select Job 16:14

15He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.Select Job 16:15

16I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.Select Job 16:16

17My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.Select Job 16:17

18These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.Select Job 16:18

19O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.Select Job 16:19

20For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.Select Job 16:20

21My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.Select Job 16:21

22And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!Select Job 16:22

23For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.Select Job 16:23