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Job 16 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Job Says Friends Are Miserable Comforters

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Then Job H347 responded H6030 H559,

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“I have heard H8085 many H7227 things H7227 like these H428;

[fn]Miserable H5999 comforters H5162 are you all H3605!

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“Is there no end H7093 to windy H7307 words H1697?

Or H176 what H4100 provokes H4834 you that you answer H6030?

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“I too H1571 could speak H1696 like you,

If H3863 only H3863 [fn]I were in H8478 your place H8478.

I could compose H2266 words H4405 against H5921 you

And shake H5128 my head H7218 at you.

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“Or I could strengthen H553 you with my mouth H6310,

And the condolence H5205 of my lips H8193 could lessen H2820 your pain.

Job Says God Shattered Him

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“If H518 I speak H1696, my pain H3511 is not lessened H2820,

And if I refrain H2308, what H4100 pain leaves H1980 me?

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“But now H6258 He has exhausted H3811 me;

You have laid H8074 waste H8074 all H3605 my group H5712 of loved ones.

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“And You have shriveled H7059 me up,

[fn]It has become H1961 a witness H5707;

And my infirmity H3585 rises H6965 up H6965 against me,

It testifies H6030 to my face H6440.

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“His anger H639 has torn H2963 me and [fn]hunted H7852 me down H7852,

He has gnashed H2786 at me with His teeth H8127;

My enemy H6862 [fn]glares H3913 H5869 at me.

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“They have gaped H6473 at me with their mouths H6310,

They have [fn]slapped H5221 me on the cheek H3895 with contempt H2781;

They have massed H4390 H3162 themselves against H5921 me.

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“God H410 hands H5462 me over H5462 to criminals H5760,

And tosses H3399 me into the hands H3027 of the wicked H7563.

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“I was at ease H7961, but He shattered H6565 me,

And He has grasped H270 me by my neck H6203 and shaken H6327 me to H6327 pieces H6327;

He has also set H6965 me up H6965 as His target H4307.

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“His arrows H7228 surround H5437 me.

He splits H6398 my kidneys H3629 open H6398 without H3808 mercy H2550;

He pours H8210 out H8210 my bile H4845 on the ground H776.

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“He breaks H6555 through H6555 me with breach H6556 after H5921 H6440 breach H6556;

He runs H7323 at me like a warrior H1368.

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“I have sewed H8609 sackcloth H8242 over H5921 my skin H1539,

And thrust H5953 my horn H7161 in the dust H6083.

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“My face H6440 is flushed H2560 from weeping H1065,

And deep H6757 darkness H6757 is on my eyelids H6079,

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Although H5921 there is no H3808 violence H2555 in my hands H3709,

And my prayer H8605 is pure H2134.

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“Earth H776, do not cover H3680 my blood H1818,

And may there be no H408 resting place H4725 for my cry H2201.

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“Even H1571 now H6258, behold H2009, my witness H5707 is in heaven H8064,

And my [fn]advocate H7717 is on high H4791.

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“My friends H7453 are my scoffers H3887;

My eye H5869 weeps H1811 to God H433,

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That one might plead H3198 for a man H1397 with God H433

As a son H1121 of man H120 with his neighbor H7453!

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“For when a few H4557 years H8141 are H857 past H857,

I shall go H1980 the way H734 of no H3808 return H7725.

See the NASB20 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit Comforters of trouble
Lit your soul were in place of my soul
I.e., Job’s condition
Lit borne a grudge against me
Lit sharpens his eyes
Lit struck
Or witness
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Job Chapter 16 — Additional Translations:

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