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Job 16

1 Then Job answered and said:

1 Then Job replied [to his friends],

2 "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are ye all!

2 "I have heard many things like this before. You are all pathetic at comforting me.

3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

3 Will [your] long-winded speeches never end? What disturbs you that you keep on answering [me]?

4 I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

4 I, too, could speak like you if we could trade places. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.

5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.

5 I could encourage you with my mouth, and my quivering lips could ease [your pain].

6 "Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased?

6 If I speak, my pain is not eased. If I stop talking, how much of it will go away?

7 But now He hath made me weary; Thou hast made desolate all my company.

7 "But now, God has worn me out. You, [God,] have destroyed everyone who supports me.

8 And Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me; and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

8 You have shriveled me up, which itself is a witness [against me]. My frail body rises up and testifies against me.

9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me; he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

9 "God's anger tore me [apart] and attacked me. He gritted his teeth at me. My opponent looked sharply at me.

10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

10 People gaped at me with wide-open mouths. In scorn they slapped my cheeks. They united against me.

11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

11 God handed me over to unjust people and threw me into the hands of wicked people.

12 "I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder; he hath also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

12 I was at ease, and he shattered me. He grabbed me by the back of the neck and smashed [my skull]. He set me up as his target,

13 His archers compass me round about; he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

13 and his archers surrounded me. He slashes open my kidneys without mercy and spills my blood on the ground.

14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a giant.

14 He inflicts wound after wound on me. He lunges at me like a warrior.

15 "I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

15 "I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have thrown my strength in the dust.

16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,

16 My face is red from crying, and dark shadows encircle my eyes,

17 not for any injustice in mine hands; also my prayer is pure.

17 although my hands have done nothing violent, and my prayer is sincere.

18 "O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

18 "Earth, don't cover my blood. Don't ever let my cry [for justice] be stopped.

19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

19 Even now, look! My witness is in heaven, and the one who testifies for me is above,

20 My friends scorn me, but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

20 the spokesman for my thoughts. My eyes drip [with tears] to God

21 O, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!

21 [16:22] because in a few short years I will take the path of no return.

22 When a few years have come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

22 [16:21] But my witness will plead for a human in front of God. The Son of Man will plead for his friend!