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Job 16 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Job 16:1And Job answered and said,
Job 16:2I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
Job 16:3Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Job 16:4I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
Job 16:5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage your pain.

Job Says God Shattered Him

Job 16:6If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
Job 16:7But now he hath made me weary; ... thou hast made desolate all my family;
Job 16:8Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.
Job 16:9His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; as mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.
Job 16:10They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.
Job 16:11God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
Job 16:13His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Job 16:14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.
Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.
Job 16:16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job 16:17Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Job 16:18O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!
Job 16:19Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.
Job 16:20My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Job 16:21Oh that there were arbitration for a man with God, as a son of man for his friend!
Job 16:22For years few in number shall pass, -- and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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