Job 16 — BBE
16Verse 1And Job made answer and said,Verse 2Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.Verse 3May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?Verse 4It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:Verse 5I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.Verse 6If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?Verse 7But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.Verse 8It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.Verse 9I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;Verse 10Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.Verse 11God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.Verse 12I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.Verse 13His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.Verse 14I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.Verse 15I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.Verse 16My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;Verse 17Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.Verse 18O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!Verse 19Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.Verse 20My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,Verse 21So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.Verse 22For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.