Job 16 — GNV
16Verse 1Bvt Iob answered, and said,Verse 2I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.Verse 3Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?Verse 4I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,Verse 5But I woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.Verse 6Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?Verse 7But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,Verse 8And hast made me full of wrinkles which is a witnesse thereof, and my leannes ryseth vp in me, testifying the same in my face.Verse 9His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.Verse 10They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.Verse 11God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.Verse 12I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.Verse 13His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, and powreth my gall vpon the ground.Verse 14He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.Verse 15I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.Verse 16My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,Verse 17Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure.Verse 18O earth, couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no place.Verse 19For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.Verse 20My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.Verse 21Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!Verse 22For the yeeres accounted come, and I shall go the way, whence I shall not returne.