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Job 16

1 Then Job answered:

1 In response Iyov said:

2 "I have heard many things like these. You are all painful comforters!

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

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

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

4 I also could speak as you do if you were in my place. I could make great speeches against you and shake my head at you.

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 But, instead, I would encourage you, and my words would bring you relief.

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

6 "Even if I speak, my pain is not less, and if I don't speak, it still does not go away.

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

7 God, you have surely taken away my strength and destroyed my whole family.

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

8 You have made me thin and weak, and this shows I have done wrong.

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 God attacks me and tears me with anger; he grinds his teeth at me; my enemy stares at me with his angry eyes.

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 People open their mouths to make fun of me and hit my cheeks to insult me. They join together against me.

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

11 God has turned me over to evil people and has handed me over to the wicked.

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

12 Everything was fine with me, but God broke me into pieces; he held me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;

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 surround me. He stabs my kidneys without mercy; he spills my blood on the ground.

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

14 Again and again God attacks me; he runs at me like a soldier.

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

15 "I have sewed rough cloth over my skin to show my sadness and have buried my face in the dust.

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

16 My face is red from crying; I have dark circles around my eyes.

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

17 Yet my hands have never done anything cruel, and my prayer is pure.

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

18 "Earth, please do not cover up my blood. Don't let my cry ever stop being heard!

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

19 Even now I have one who speaks for me in heaven; the one who is on my side is high above.

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

20 The one who speaks for me is my friend. My eyes pour out tears to God.

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

21 He begs God on behalf of a human as a person begs for his friend.

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

22 "Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return.

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