Job 16

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1. 1Then Job answered and said,
2. 2"I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters.
3. 3Will these empty words have an end? Or what emboldens you that you answer?
4. 4I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
5. 5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would ease your grief.
6. 6Though I speak, my grief is not eased; and though I hold back, what am I relieved of?
7. 7But now he has made me weary. You have made desolate all my company.
8. 8You have filled me with wrinkles, which testify against me. My thinness rises up and bears witness to my face.
9. 9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.
10. 10They have gaped upon me with their mouths; they have struck me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11. 11God has delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12. 12I was at ease, but he has broken me apart. He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up as his mark.
13. 13His archers surround me; he cleaves my kidneys apart and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.
14. 14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a giant.
15. 15I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.
16. 16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17. 17not for any injustice in my hands; also my prayer is pure.
18. 18O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19. 19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
20. 20My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.
21. 21Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
22. 22When a few years have come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.