Job 16 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Job Says Friends Are Sorry Comforters

Job 16:1Then Job [fn]answered,

Job 16:2“I have heard many such things;
[fn]Sorry comforters are you all.

Job 16:3“Is there no limit to windy words?
Or what plagues you that you answer?

Job 16:4“I too could speak like you,
If [fn]I were in your place.
I could compose words against you
And shake my head at you.

Job 16:5

Job 16:5“I could strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.

Job Says God Shattered Him

Job 16:6

Job 16:6“If I speak, my pain is not lessened,
And if I hold back, what has left me?

Job 16:7

Job 16:7“But now He has exhausted me;
You have laid waste all my company.

Job 16:8

Job 16:8“You have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness;
And my leanness rises up against me,
It testifies to my face.

Job 16:9

Job 16:9“His anger has torn me and [fn]hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with His teeth;
My adversary [fn]glares at me.

Job 16:10

Job 16:10“They have gaped at me with their mouth,
They have [fn]slapped me on the cheek with contempt;
They have massed themselves against me.

Job 16:11

Job 16:11“God hands me over to ruffians
And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 16:12

Job 16:12“I was at ease, but He shattered me,
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.

Job 16:13

Job 16:13“His arrows surround me.
Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;
He pours out my gall on the ground.

Job 16:14

Job 16:14“He breaks through me with breach after breach;
He runs at me like a warrior.

Job 16:15

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

Job 16:16

Job 16:16“My face is flushed from weeping,
And 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“O earth, do not cover my blood,
And let there be no resting place for my cry.

Job 16:19

Job 16:19“Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
And my [fn]advocate is on high.

Job 16:20

Job 16:20“My friends are my scoffers;
My eye [fn]weeps to God.

Job 16:21

Job 16:21“O that a man might plead with God
As a man with his neighbor!

Job 16:22

Job 16:22“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(16:1)

Literally: answered and said

(16:2)

Literally: Comforters of trouble

(16:4)

Literally: your soul were in place of my soul

(16:9)

Literally: borne a grudge against me

(16:9)

Literally: sharpens his eyes

(16:10)

Literally: struck

(16:19)

Or, witness

(16:20)

Or, drips

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