- Then Job replied:
- "I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!
- Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
- I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
- But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
- "Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
- Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
- You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
- God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
- People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
- God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
- All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
- his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.
- Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.
- "I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
- My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;
- yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- "Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!
- Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
- My intercessor is my friend[1] as my eyes pour out tears to God;
- on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.
- "Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.
Job 16
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