Job 16:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things; / Troubling comforters are you all.
Job 16:3 Do words of wind have an end? / Or what has provoked you that you so respond?
Job 16:4 I also could speak like you, / If your soul were in my soul’s stead; / I could join my words together against you / And shake my head at you.
Job 16:5 I could strengthen you with my mouth, / And the movement of my lips would mitigate your pain.
Job 16:6 If I speak, my pain is not mitigated; / And if I forbear, how much departs from me?
Job 16:7 But now He has worn me out; / You have desolated all my company.
Job 16:8 And You have seized me; it is a testimony against me; / And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.
Job 16:9 In His wrath He has torn me to pieces and been adverse toward me; / He has gnashed His teeth at me. / My Adversary sharpens His eyes at me.
Job 16:10 With their mouth they gape at me; / They strike my cheek reproachfully; / They mass themselves together against me.
Job 16:11 God has delivered me over to the unjust / And cast me down into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12 I was at ease, and He broke me apart; / Indeed He took me by my neck and dashed me to pieces. / And He set me up as His target;
Job 16:13 His archers surrounded me; / He split open my kidneys and did not desist; / He poured out my gall upon the earth.
Job 16:14 He broke me open with breach upon breach; / He ran at me like a mighty man of war.
Job 16:15 I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin / And have cast my horn into the dust.
Job 16:16 My face is reddened with weeping, / And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job 16:17 Though there is no violence in my hands, / And my prayer is pure.
Job 16:18 O earth, do not cover my blood; / And let there be no resting place for my crying out.
Job 16:19 Even now, there in heaven is my Witness, / And He who vouches for me is in the heights.
Job 16:20 My friends deride me; / My eye pours out tears to God,
Job 16:21 That He would plead for a man in his case with God / And for a son of man in his case with his Neighbor.
Job 16:22 For when years few in number have come, / I will go the way from which I cannot return.