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Job 16

1 Then Job replied:

1 In response Iyov said:

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

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

3 Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that 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 like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine 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 my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

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

6 “Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it 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 Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

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

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

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 assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing 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 jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite 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 the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.

11 "God delivers me to the perverse, throws 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 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. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall 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 he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.

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

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

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

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

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

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

17 Yet my hands are free from violence, 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; don't let my cry rest [without being answered].

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

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

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

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

21 on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a 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 take the path of no return.

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