Job Chapter 16
| 1 | Then Job answered and said, | 2 | I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. | 3 | Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? | 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. | 5 | But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. | 6 | Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? | 7 | But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. | 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. | 9 | He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon 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. | 11 | God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. | 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. | 13 | His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. | 14 | He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. | 15 | I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. | 16 | My face is foul with weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of death; | 17 | Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. | 18 | O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. | 19 | Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. | 20 | My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. | 21 | O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! | 22 | When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. |