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Job 16

1 I have heard words like that before;

1 Then Job replied:

2 the comfort you give is only torment.

2 “I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!

3 Are you going to keep on talking forever? Do you always have to have the last word?

3 Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?

4 If you were in my place and I in yours, I could say everything you are saying. I could shake my head wisely and drown you with a flood of words.

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 I could strengthen you with advice and keep talking to comfort you.

5 But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

6 But nothing I say helps, and being silent does not calm my pain.

6 “Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

7 You have worn me out, God; you have let my family be killed.

7 Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

8 You have seized me; you are my enemy. I am skin and bones, and people take that as proof of my guilt.

8 You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

9 In anger God tears me limb from limb; he glares at me with hate.

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 sneer at me; they crowd around me and slap my face.

10 People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.

11 God has handed me over to evil people.

11 God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.

12 I was living in peace, but God took me by the throat and battered me and crushed me. God uses me for target practice

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 and shoots arrows at me from every side - arrows that pierce and wound me; and even then he shows no pity.

13 his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.

14 He wounds me again and again; he attacks like a soldier gone mad with hate.

14 Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.

15 I mourn and wear clothes made of sackcloth, and I sit here in the dust defeated.

15 “I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.

16 I have cried until my face is red, and my eyes are swollen and circled with shadows,

16 My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;

17 but I am not guilty of any violence, and my prayer to God is sincere.

17 yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.

18 O Earth, don't hide the wrongs done to me! Don't let my call for justice be silenced!

18 “Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!

19 There is someone in heaven to stand up for me and take my side.

19 Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.

20 My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.

20 My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

21 I want someone to plead with God for me, as one pleads for a friend.

21 on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.

22 My years are passing now, and I walk the road of no return.

22 “Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.