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Job 16

The Message Bible MSG

1 Then Job defended himself:

2 "I've had all I can take of your talk. What a bunch of miserable comforters!

3 Is there no end to your windbag speeches? What's your problem that you go on and on like this?

4 If you were in my shoes, I could talk just like you. I could put together a terrific harangue and really let you have it.

5 But I'd never do that. I'd console and comfort, make things better, not worse!

6 "When I speak up, I feel no better; if I say nothing, that doesn't help either.

7 I feel worn down. God, you have wasted me totally - me and my family!

8 You've shriveled me like a dried prune, showing the world that you're against me. My gaunt face stares back at me from the mirror, a mute witness to your treatment of me.

9 Your anger tears at me, your teeth rip me to shreds, your eyes burn holes in me - God, my enemy!

10 People take one look at me and gasp. Contemptuous, they slap me around and gang up against me.

11 And God just stands there and lets them do it, lets wicked people do what they want with me.

12 I was contentedly minding my business when God beat me up. He grabbed me by the neck and threw me around. He set me up as his target,

13 then rounded up archers to shoot at me. Merciless, they shot me full of arrows; bitter bile poured from my gut to the ground.

14 He burst in on me, onslaught after onslaught, charging me like a mad bull.

15 "I sewed myself a shroud and wore it like a shirt; I lay face down in the dirt.

16 Now my face is blotched red from weeping; look at the dark shadows under my eyes,

17 Even though I've never hurt a soul and my prayers are sincere! The One Who Represents Mortals Before God

18 "O Earth, don't cover up the wrong done to me! Don't muffle my cry!

19 There must be Someone in heaven who knows the truth about me, in highest heaven, some Attorney who can clear my name -

20 My Champion, my Friend, while I'm weeping my eyes out before God.

21 I appeal to the One who represents mortals before God as a neighbor stands up for a neighbor.

22 "Only a few years are left before I set out on the road of no return.

English Standard Version ESV

1 Then Job answered and said:

2 “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

3 Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

4 I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.

5 I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

6 “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

7 Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

8 And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.

9 He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

10 Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.

11 God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;

13 his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.

14 He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.

15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.

16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,

17 although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

18 “O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.

19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.

20 My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

21 that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.

22 For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.