Job 16
1Then Job answered and said, 1
2I have heard many such things: 1 Miserable comforters are ye all. 1
3Shall vain words have an end? 1 Or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 1
4I also could speak as ye do: 1 If your soul were in my soul’s stead, 1 I could heap up words against you, 1 And shake mine head at you. 1
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, 1 And the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. 1
6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: 1 And though I forbear, what am I eased? 1
7But now he hath made me weary: 1 Thou hast made desolate all my company. 1
8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: 1 And my leanness rising up in me 1 Beareth witness to my face. 1
9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: 1 He gnasheth upon me with his teeth; 1 Mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 1
10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; 1 They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; 1 They have gathered themselves together against me. 1
11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, 1 And turned me over into the hands of the wicked. 1
12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: 1 He hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, 1 And set me up for his mark. 1
13His archers compass me round about, 1 He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; 1 He poureth out my gall upon the ground. 1
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, 1 He runneth upon me like a giant. 1
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, 1 And defiled my horn in the dust. 1
16My face is foul with weeping, 1 And on mine eyelids is the shadow of death; 1
17Not for any injustice in mine hands: 1 Also my prayer is pure. 1
18O earth, cover not thou my blood, 1 And let my cry have no place. 1
19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, 1 And my record is on high. 1
20My friends scorn me: 1 But mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 1
21O that one might plead for a man with God, 1 As a man pleadeth for his neighbour. 1
22When a few years are come, 1 Then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.