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Job 16

1 Then Job replied:

1 Then Job answered:

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

2 I've heard many things like these. All of you are sorry comforters.

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

3 Will windy talk ever cease; what bothers you that you must argue?

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.

4 In your situation I could speak like you; I could put words together to oppose you, shake my head over you.

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

5 I could heap up words, strengthen you with my speech; my trembling lips would be held in check.

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

6 If I speak, my pain is not eased; if I hold back, what have I lost?

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

7 Now God has surely worn me out. You have destroyed my entire group,

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

8 seized me, which became grounds for an accusation. My leanness rises to bear witness 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.

9 His anger tears me and afflicts me; he slashes at me with his teeth. My enemy pierces me with his eyes.

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

10 They open their mouths at me and strike my cheek in a taunt; they gang up on me.

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

11 God delivers me to a criminal and forces me into the hands 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;

12 I was at rest, but he shattered me, seized me by the back of my neck, dashed me into pieces; he raised me up for his target.

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

13 His archers surround me; he cuts my kidneys open without pity and doesn't care, pours my gall on the ground,

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

14 bursts me open over and over, runs against me like a strong man.

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

15 I've sewed rough cloth over my skin and buried my dignity in the dust.

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

16 My face is red from crying, and dark gloom hangs on my eyelids.

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

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

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

18 Earth, don't cover my blood; let my outcry never cease.

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

19 Surely now my witness stands in heaven; my advocate is on high;

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

20 my go-between, my friend. While my eyes drip tears to God,

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

21 let him plead with God for a human being, like a person pleads for a friend.

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

22 A number of years will surely pass, and then I'll walk a path that I won't return.