Job 16 — DBY
16Verse 1And Job answered and said,Verse 2I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.Verse 3Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?Verse 4I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;Verse 5[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].Verse 6If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?Verse 7But now he hath made me weary; ...thou hast made desolate all my family;Verse 8Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.Verse 9His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.Verse 10They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.Verse 11*God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.Verse 12I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.Verse 13His arrows encompass 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 mighty man.Verse 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.Verse 16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;Verse 17Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.Verse 18O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!Verse 19Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.Verse 20My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto+God.Verse 21Oh that there were arbitration for a man with+God, as a son of man for his friend!Verse 22For years [few] in number shall pass, — and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.