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Job 16

Job Says Friends Are Miserable Comforters

¹Then Job responded,

²“I have heard many things like these; Miserable comforters are you all!

³“Is there no end to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

⁴“I too could speak like you, If only I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.

⁵“Or I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the condolence of my lips could lessen your pain.

Job Says God Shattered Him

⁶¶“If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I refrain, what pain leaves me?

⁷“But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my group of loved ones.

⁸“And You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my infirmity rises up against me, It testifies to my face.

⁹“His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My enemy glares at me.

¹⁰“They have gaped at me with their mouths, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.

¹¹“God hands me over to criminals, And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

¹²“I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He has grasped me by my neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target.

¹³“His arrows surround me. He splits my kidneys open without mercy; He pours out my bile on the ground.

¹⁴“He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior.

¹⁵“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin, And thrust my horn in the dust.

¹⁶“My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness is on my eyelids,

¹⁷Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

¹⁸¶“Earth, do not cover my blood, And may there be no resting place for my cry.

¹⁹“Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high.

²⁰“My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God,

²¹That one might plead for a man with God As a son of man with his neighbor!

²²“For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.

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Chapter 16

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