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

Job 16:1But Job answered and said,

Job 16:2I have heard many such things: poor comforters are ye all.

Job 16:3What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder thee from answering?

Job 16:4I 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.

Job 16:5

Job 16:5And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.

Job 16:6

Job 16:6For 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?

Job 16:7

Job 16:7But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and thou hast laid hold of me.

Job 16:8

Job 16:8My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.

Job 16:9

Job 16:9In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.

Job 16:10

Job 16:10He 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.

Job 16:11

Job 16:11For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.

Job 16:12

Job 16:12When 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.

Job 16:13

Job 16:13They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing me they poured out my gall upon the ground.

Job 16:14

Job 16:14They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in their might.

Job 16:15

Job 16:15They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.

Job 16:16

Job 16:16My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.

Job 16:17

Job 16:17Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

Job 16:18

Job 16:18Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.

Job 16:19

Job 16:19And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

Job 16:20

Job 16:20Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.

Job 16:21

Job 16:21Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of man with his neighbour!

Job 16:22

Job 16:22But my years are numbered and their end come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.

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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