Job 16 — KJVCP
16Verse 1Then Job answered and said,Verse 2I have heard many such things:
Miserable comforters are ye all.
Verse 3Shall vain words have an end?
Or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Verse 4I also could speak as ye do:
If your soul were in my soul’s stead,
I could heap up words against you,
And shake mine head at you.
Verse 5But I would strengthen you with my mouth,
And the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.Verse 6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged:
And though I forbear, what am I eased?
Verse 7But now he hath made me weary:
Thou hast made desolate all my company.
Verse 8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me:
And my leanness rising up in me
Beareth witness to my face.
Verse 9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me:
He gnasheth upon me with his teeth;
Mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.Verse 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth;
They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully;
They have gathered themselves together against me.
Verse 11God hath delivered me to the ungodly,
And turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Verse 12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder:
He hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces,
And set me up for his mark.
Verse 13His archers compass me round about,
He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare;
He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Verse 14He breaketh me with breach upon breach,
He runneth upon me like a giant.Verse 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,
And defiled my horn in the dust.
Verse 16My face is foul with weeping,
And on mine eyelids is the shadow of death;
Verse 17Not for any injustice in mine hands:
Also my prayer is pure.
Verse 18O earth, cover not thou my blood,
And let my cry have no place.
Verse 19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
And my record is on high.
Verse 20My friends scorn me:
But mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Verse 21O that one might plead for a man with God,
As a man pleadeth for his neighbour.
Verse 22When a few years are come,
Then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Miserable comforters are ye all.
Verse 3Shall vain words have an end?
Or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Verse 4I also could speak as ye do:
If your soul were in my soul’s stead,
I could heap up words against you,
And shake mine head at you.
Verse 5But I would strengthen you with my mouth,
And the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.Verse 6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged:
And though I forbear, what am I eased?
Verse 7But now he hath made me weary:
Thou hast made desolate all my company.
Verse 8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me:
And my leanness rising up in me
Beareth witness to my face.
Verse 9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me:
He gnasheth upon me with his teeth;
Mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.Verse 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth;
They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully;
They have gathered themselves together against me.
Verse 11God hath delivered me to the ungodly,
And turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Verse 12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder:
He hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces,
And set me up for his mark.
Verse 13His archers compass me round about,
He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare;
He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Verse 14He breaketh me with breach upon breach,
He runneth upon me like a giant.Verse 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,
And defiled my horn in the dust.
Verse 16My face is foul with weeping,
And on mine eyelids is the shadow of death;
Verse 17Not for any injustice in mine hands:
Also my prayer is pure.
Verse 18O earth, cover not thou my blood,
And let my cry have no place.
Verse 19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
And my record is on high.
Verse 20My friends scorn me:
But mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Verse 21O that one might plead for a man with God,
As a man pleadeth for his neighbour.
Verse 22When a few years are come,
Then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.