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Job 16

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 In response Iyov said:

2 "I have heard this stuff so often! Such sorry comforters, all of you!

3 Is there no end to words of wind? What provokes you to answer this way?

4 "If I were in your place, I too could speak as you do -I could string phrases together against you and shake my head at you.

5 I could 'strengthen' you with my mouth, with lip service I could 'ease your grief.'

6 If I speak, my own pain isn't eased; and if I don't speak, it still doesn't leave.

7 "But now he has worn me out; you have desolated this whole community of mine.

8 Besides, you have shriveled me up; and this serves to witness against me. My being so thin rises up against me and testifies to my face.

9 He tears me apart in his anger; he holds a grudge against me; he gnashes on me with his teeth. "My enemies look daggers at me.

10 Wide-mouthed, they gape at me; with scorn, they slap my cheeks; they gather themselves together against me.

11 "God delivers me to the perverse, throws me into the hands of the wicked.

12 I was at peace, and he shook me apart. Yes, he grabbed me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target

13 his archers surrounded me. He slashes my innards and shows no mercy, he pours my gall on the ground.

14 He breaks in on me again and again, attacking me like a warrior.

15 "I sewed sackcloth together to cover my skin and laid my pride in the dust;

16 my face is red from crying, and on my eyelids is a death-dark shadow.

17 Yet my hands are free from violence, and my prayer is pure.

18 "Earth, don't cover my blood; don't let my cry rest [without being answered].

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

20 With friends like these as intercessors, my eyes pour out tears to God,

21 that he would arbitrate between a man and God, just as one does for his fellow human being.

22 For I have but few years left before I leave on the road of no return.

King James Version KJV

1 Then Job answered and said,

2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

4 I 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.

5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

12 I 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.

13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.