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Job 16

1 Then Job replied:

1 Job replied,

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

2 "I've heard many of those things before. You are terrible at comforting me!

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

3 Your speeches go on forever. Won't they ever end? What's wrong with you? Why do you keep on arguing?

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 you and I changed places, I could say the same things you are saying. I could make fine speeches against you. I could shake my head at you.

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

5 But what I might say would give you hope. My words of comfort would help you.

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

6 "If I speak, it doesn't help me. And if I keep quiet, my pain doesn't go away.

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

7 God has worn me out completely. He has destroyed my whole family.

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

8 People can see the condition he has put me in. My thin body stands as a 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 God is angry with me. He attacks me and tears me up. He grinds his teeth at me. He stares at me as if he were my enemy.

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

10 People make fun of me. They slap my face and laugh at me. All of them join together against me.

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

11 God has turned me over to sinful people. He has handed me over to them.

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 Everything was going well with me. But he broke me into pieces like a clay pot. He grabbed me by the neck and crushed me. He has taken aim at me.

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

13 He shoots his arrows at me from all sides. Without pity, he stabs me in the kidneys. He spills my insides on the ground.

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

14 He smashes through me as if I were a wall. He rushes at me like a fighting man.

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

15 "I've sewed black cloth over my skin. All I can do is sit here in the dust.

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

16 My face is red from crying. I have deep circles under my eyes.

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

17 But I haven't harmed anyone. My prayers to God are pure.

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

18 "Earth, please don't cover up my blood! May God always hear my cry for help!

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

19 Even now my witness is in heaven. The one who speaks up for me is there.

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

20 My go-between is my friend as I pour out my tears to God.

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

21 He makes his appeal to God to help me as a man begs someone to help his friend.

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

22 "Only a few years will pass by. Then I'll go on a journey I won't return from.