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Job 16 :: New English Translation (NET)

Job 16:1

Job 16:1Then Job replied:

Job 16:2

Job 16:2"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

Job 16:3

Job 16:3Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Job 16:4

Job 16:4I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.

Job 16:5

Job 16:5But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

Job Says God Shattered Him

Job 16:6

Job 16:6"But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking - how much of it goes away?

Job 16:7

Job 16:7Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.

Job 16:8

Job 16:8You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

Job 16:9

Job 16:9His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

Job 16:10

Job 16:10People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

Job 16:11

Job 16:11God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.

Job 16:12

Job 16:12I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;

Job 16:13

Job 16:13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

Job 16:14

Job 16:14He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.

Job 16:15

Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;

Job 16:16

Job 16:16my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

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, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.

Job 16:19

Job 16:19Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.

Job 16:20

Job 16:20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

Job 16:21

Job 16:21and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.

Job 16:22

Job 16:22For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
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