JOB 16
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3 Shall vain words have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could join words together against you, and shake mine head at you.
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage your grief.
6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8 And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me: and my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face.
9 He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; he hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: they gather themselves together against me.
11 God delivereth me to the ungodly, and casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: he hath also set me up for his mark.
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 He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a giant.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 Although there is no violence in mine hands, and my prayer is pure.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting place.
19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that coucheth for me is on high.
20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God;
21 That he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbour!
22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Cross-references
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- 2Job 13:4–5, Job 26:2–3, Psa 69:26, Job 6:25, Jas 1:19, Php 1:16, Job 19:2–3, Job 6:6
- 3Job 6:26, Job 15:2, Mat 22:46, Tit 2:8, Tit 1:11, Job 20:3, Job 8:2, Job 32:3–6
- 4Psa 109:25, Psa 22:7, Lam 2:15, Mat 7:12, 2Ki 19:21, Jer 18:16, Rom 12:15, Psa 44:14
- 5Gal 6:1, Pro 27:9, Isa 35:3–4, Job 6:14, Job 29:25, Psa 27:14, Job 4:3–4, Pro 27:17
- 6Job 10:1, Psa 88:15–18, Psa 77:1–9
- 7Job 7:3, Job 1:15–19, Mic 6:13, Pro 3:11–12, Job 3:17, Job 10:1, Job 29:5–25, Job 7:16
- 8Job 10:17, Job 19:20, Psa 109:24, Rut 1:21, Isa 10:16, Psa 106:15, Isa 24:16, Eph 5:27
- 9Psa 35:16, Lam 2:16, Job 13:24, Job 19:11, Hos 6:1, Psa 37:12, Act 7:54, Job 10:16–17
- 10Psa 35:15, Psa 22:13, Isa 50:6, Lam 3:30, Psa 22:16–17, Act 23:2, Mic 5:1, 2Co 11:20
- 11Psa 27:12, Psa 7:14, Psa 31:8, 2Co 12:7, Jhn 19:16, 1Sa 24:18, Job 2:7, Job 1:13–19
- 12Lam 3:11–12, Job 7:20, Lam 3:4, Job 9:17, Psa 44:19, Job 4:10, Rom 16:4, Job 7:12
- 13Job 20:25, Job 6:4, Lam 2:11, Gen 49:23, Job 6:10, Psa 7:12–13, Deu 29:20, Rom 8:32
- 14Jdg 15:8, Job 9:17, Psa 42:7, Lam 3:3–5, Jol 2:7
- 15Gen 37:34, Psa 7:5, 1Ki 21:27, Psa 75:5, Isa 22:12, Psa 75:10, 1Sa 2:10, Job 30:19
- 16Mrk 14:34, Lam 1:16, Psa 102:3–5, Jon 2:1–10, Job 17:7, Psa 31:9, Psa 102:9, Isa 52:14
- 17Pro 15:8, Psa 66:18–19, Job 8:5–6, Job 27:6–7, Psa 7:3–5, Job 15:34, Job 11:14, Job 22:5–9
- 18Isa 26:21, Ezk 24:7, Gen 4:11, Psa 66:18–19, Jas 4:3–4, Isa 1:15, Job 27:9, Neh 4:5
- 19Rom 1:9, 1Th 2:10, Gen 31:50, 2Co 1:23, Job 25:2, 1Th 2:5, Psa 113:5, 1Sa 12:5
- 20Heb 5:7, Psa 142:2, Job 12:4–5, Luk 6:11–12, Job 16:4, Job 17:2, Psa 109:4, Hos 12:4–5
- 21Ecc 6:10, Rom 9:20, Isa 45:9, Job 9:34–35, Job 31:35, Job 23:3–7, Job 13:3, Job 13:22
- 22Job 14:10, Job 14:5, Job 7:9–10, Job 14:14, Ecc 12:5