16Job 16

Job

2I have heard words like that before; the comfort you give is only torment.Select Job 16:2

3Are you going to keep on talking forever? Do you always have to have the last word?Select Job 16:3

4If 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.Select Job 16:4

5I could strengthen you with advice and keep talking to comfort you.Select Job 16:5

6But nothing I say helps, and being silent does not calm my pain.Select Job 16:6

7You have worn me out, God; you have let my family be killed.Select Job 16:7

8You have seized me; you are my enemy. I am skin and bones, and people take that as proof of my guilt.Select Job 16:8

9In anger God tears me limb from limb; he glares at me with hate.Select Job 16:9

10People sneer at me; they crowd around me and slap my face.Select Job 16:10

11God has handed me over to evil people.Select Job 16:11

12I was living in peace, but God took me by the throat and battered me and crushed me. God uses me for target practiceSelect Job 16:12

13and shoots arrows at me from every side— arrows that pierce and wound me; and even then he shows no pity.Select Job 16:13

14He wounds me again and again; he attacks like a soldier gone mad with hate.Select Job 16:14

15I mourn and wear clothes made of sackcloth, and I sit here in the dust defeated.Select Job 16:15

16I have cried until my face is red, and my eyes are swollen and circled with shadows,Select Job 16:16

17but I am not guilty of any violence, and my prayer to God is sincere.Select Job 16:17

18O Earth, don't hide the wrongs done to me! Don't let my call for justice be silenced!Select Job 16:18

19There is someone in heaven to stand up for me and take my side.Select Job 16:19

20My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.Select Job 16:20

21I want someone to plead with God for me, as one pleads for a friend.Select Job 16:21

22My years are passing now, and I walk the road of no return.Select Job 16:22