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Job

ESV

Chapter 16

¹Then Job answered and said: ²“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. ³Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? ⁴I also could speak as you do, if your soul were in my soul’s place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you. ⁵I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain. ⁶“If I speak, my suffering is not assuaged, and if I forbear, what has left me? ⁷But now he has made me weary; you have made desolate all my company. ⁸And you have shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face. ⁹He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me. ¹⁰Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me on the cheek with contempt; they have massed themselves together against me. ¹¹God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked. ¹²I was at ease, and he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target; ¹³his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground. ¹⁴He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior. ¹⁵I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust. ¹⁶My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness; ¹⁷although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. ¹⁸“O earth, cover not my blood, and let no cry of mine find a resting place. ¹⁹Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high. ²⁰My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, ²¹that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man would plead for his neighbor. ²²For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.