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Job 16 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Job 16:1

Job 16:1Then Iyov answered,

Job 16:2

Job 16:2"I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!

Job 16:3

Job 16:3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Job 16:4

Job 16:4I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.

Job 16:5

Job 16:5But I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

Job Says God Shattered Him

Job 16:6

Job 16:6"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

Job 16:7

Job 16:7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

Job 16:8

Job 16:8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.

Job 16:9

Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He has gnashed on me with his teeth: My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

Job 16:10

Job 16:10They have gaped on me with their mouth; They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Job 16:11

Job 16:11God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 16:12

Job 16:12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

Job 16:13

Job 16:13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

Job 16:14

Job 16:14He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a Rafa.

Job 16:15

Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.

Job 16:16

Job 16:16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

Job 16:17

Job 16:17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

Job 16:18

Job 16:18"Eretz, don't cover my blood, Let my cry have no place to rest.

Job 16:19

Job 16:19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

Job 16:20

Job 16:20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

Job 16:21

Job 16:21That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor!

Job 16:22

Job 16:22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.
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