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Job 16 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:1 - And Job made answer and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:2 - Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:3 - May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:4 - It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:5 - I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

Job Says God Shattered Him

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:6 - If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:7 - But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:8 - It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:9 - I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:10 - Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:11 - God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:12 - I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:13 - His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:14 - I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:15 - I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16 - My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:17 - Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:18 - O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:19 - Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:20 - My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:21 - So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:22 - For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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