16Job 16

1And Job answereth and saith: --Select Job 16:1

2I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters are ye all.Select Job 16:2

3Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?Select Job 16:3

4I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.Select Job 16:4

5I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.Select Job 16:5

6If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease--what goeth from me?Select Job 16:6

7Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,Select Job 16:7

8And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.Select Job 16:8

9His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.Select Job 16:9

10They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.Select Job 16:10

11God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.Select Job 16:11

12At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.Select Job 16:12

13Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.Select Job 16:13

14He breaketh me--breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.Select Job 16:14

15Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.Select Job 16:15

16My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade.Select Job 16:16

17Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.Select Job 16:17

18O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.Select Job 16:18

19Also, now, lo, in the heavens is my witness, And my testifier in the high places.Select Job 16:19

20My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:Select Job 16:20

21And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.Select Job 16:21

22When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.Select Job 16:22