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Job 16 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Job Reproaches His Pitiless Friends
Job Shames His Unsympathetic Friends

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:1 - Then Job answered and said:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:2 - “I have heard many such things;
Miserable comforters are you all!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:3 - Shall words of wind have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:4 - I also could speak as you do,
If your soul were in my soul’s place.
I could heap up words against you,
And shake my head at you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:5 - But I would strengthen you with my mouth,
And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:6 - “Though I speak, my grief is not relieved;
And if I remain silent, how am I eased?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:7 - But now He has worn me out;
You have made desolate all my company.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:8 - You have shriveled me up,
And it is a witness against me;
My leanness rises up against me
And bears witness to my face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:9 - He tears me in His wrath, and hates me;
He gnashes at me with His teeth;
My adversary sharpens His gaze on me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:10 - They gape at me with their mouth,
They strike me reproachfully on the cheek,
They gather together against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:11 - God has delivered me to the ungodly,
And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:12 - I was at ease, but He has shattered me;
He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces;
He has set me up for His target,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:13 - His archers surround me.
He pierces my heart[fn] and does not pity;
He pours out my gall on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:14 - He breaks me with wound upon wound;
He runs at me like a warrior.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:15 - “I have sewn sackcloth over my skin,
And laid my head[fn] in the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16 - My face is flushed from weeping,
And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:17 - Although no violence is in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:18 - “O earth, do not cover my blood,
And let my cry have no resting place!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:19 - Surely even now my witness is in heaven,
And my evidence is on high.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:20 - My friends scorn me;
My eyes pour out tears to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:21 - Oh, that one might plead for a man with God,
As a man pleads for his neighbor!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:22 - For when a few years are finished,
I shall go the way of no return.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Literally kidneys
Vulgate reads giant.
Literally horn
NKJV

New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

The text of the New King James Version (NKJV) appearing on or deriving from this or any other web page is for personal use only. Any other use of the NKJV must be in conformity with the Quotation Policy for the New King James Version. For more information about the New King James Version, the Quotation Policy, and for inquiries about permission to use the New King James Version, go to Thomas Nelson, Inc..

For more information on this translation, see the NKJV Preface.

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Job Chapter 16 — Additional Translations:

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