Job 16

Job

1 Then Job replied:
2 “I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!
3 Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
4 I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
5 But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
6 “Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
7 Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
8 You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
9 God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
10 People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
11 God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
12 All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
13 his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.
14 Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.
15 “I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;
17 yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
18 “Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!
19 Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
20 My intercessor is my friend[a] as my eyes pour out tears to God;
21 on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.
22 “Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.

Cross References 45

  • 1. Psalms 69:20
  • 2. S Job 6:15; Job 13:4
  • 3. Job 11:2; Job 18:2
  • 4. S Job 6:26
  • 5. S 2 Kings 19:21; Psalms 22:7; Psalms 109:25; Isaiah 37:22; Jeremiah 48:27; Lamentations 2:15; Zephaniah 2:15; S Matthew 27:39
  • 6. Job 29:25
  • 7. S Genesis 37:35
  • 8. S Job 6:3; S Job 7:21
  • 9. S Judges 8:5; S Job 7:3
  • 10. S Job 1:19
  • 11. Job 17:7; Job 19:20; Job 33:21; Psalms 6:7; Psalms 22:17; Psalms 88:9; Psalms 102:5; Psalms 109:24; Lamentations 5:17
  • 12. S Job 10:17
  • 13. S Job 12:14; Hosea 6:1
  • 14. S Job 9:5; Job 18:4; Job 19:11
  • 15. Job 30:21; Psalms 35:16; Psalms 37:12; Psalms 112:10; Lamentations 2:16; Acts 7:54
  • 16. S Job 13:24
  • 17. Psalms 22:13; Psalms 35:21
  • 18. Job 12:4; Job 19:18; Job 21:3; Job 30:1,9; Psalms 22:13; Psalms 69:12; Psalms 119:51
  • 19. Isaiah 50:6; Lamentations 3:30; Micah 5:1; Acts 23:2
  • 20. ver 7; S Job 11:3; Job 19:12; Job 30:12; Psalms 27:3; Psalms 35:15; Acts 7:57
  • 21. S Job 9:24; Job 1:15,17
  • 22. S Job 9:17
  • 23. S Job 6:4; Lamentations 3:12
  • 24. S Job 3:23
  • 25. Job 20:24; Proverbs 7:23; Lamentations 3:13
  • 26. Job 9:17
  • 27. S Job 10:3; Joel 2:7
  • 28. S Genesis 37:34
  • 29. S Job 2:8
  • 30. ver 20; Psalms 6:6
  • 31. Job 2:7; Job 17:7; Job 30:17,30; Job 33:19; Isaiah 52:14
  • 32. Isaiah 55:7; Isaiah 59:6; Jeremiah 18:11; John 3:8
  • 33. S Job 6:28; S Job 10:7; Job 13:7; Isaiah 53:9; Zephaniah 3:13
  • 34. S Genesis 4:10; Isaiah 26:21
  • 35. Psalms 5:2; Psalms 18:6; Psalms 102:1; Psalms 119:169
  • 36. Job 19:24; Psalms 66:18-19; Hebrews 11:4
  • 37. S Genesis 31:50; S Romans 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:5
  • 38. Job 22:12; Job 42:2
  • 39. Job 19:27; Job 21:17; Job 25:2; Job 27:13; Job 31:2; Psalms 113:5; Isaiah 33:5; Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 58:4; Isaiah 66:1; Mark 11:10
  • 40. S Romans 8:34
  • 41. John 15:15
  • 42. Lamentations 2:19
  • 43. S ver 16
  • 44. 1 Kings 8:45; Psalms 9:4; Psalms 140:12
  • 45. S Job 10:21; Ecclesiastes 12:5

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "My friends treat me with scorn"

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