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Job 16

Old Testament

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  1. Job 16:1

    Then Job answered and said,

  2. Job 16:2

    I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

  3. Job 16:3

    Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

  4. Job 16:4

    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. Job 16:5

    But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

  6. Job 16:6

    Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

  7. Job 16:7

    But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

  8. Job 16:8

    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. Job 16:9

    He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

  10. Job 16:10

    They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

  11. Job 16:11

    God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

  12. Job 16:12

    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. Job 16:13

    His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

  14. Job 16:14

    He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

  15. Job 16:15

    I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

  16. Job 16:16

    My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  17. Job 16:17

    Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

  18. Job 16:18

    O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

  19. Job 16:19

    Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

  20. Job 16:20

    My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

  21. Job 16:21

    O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

  22. Job 16:22

    When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.