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Job 16 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:1 - But Job answered and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:2 - I have heard many such things: poor comforters are ye all.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:3 - What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder thee from answering?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:4 - I also will speak as ye do: if indeed your soul were in my soul's stead, then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:5 - And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:6 - For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:7 - But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and thou hast laid hold of me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:8 - My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:9 - In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:10 - He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp spear he has smitten me down upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:11 - For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:12 - When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:13 - They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing me they poured out my gall upon the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:14 - They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in their might.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:15 - They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16 - My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:17 - Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:18 - Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:19 - And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:20 - Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:21 - Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of man with his neighbour!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:22 - But my years are numbered and their end come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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