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Job 16 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job 16:1Then Job answered:
Job 16:2"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
Job 16:3Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 16:4I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
Job 16:5I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

Job Says God Shattered Him

Job 16:6"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
Job 16:7Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
Job 16:8And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.
Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
Job 16:10Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me.
Job 16:11God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12I was at ease, and he broke me asunder; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target,
Job 16:13his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
Job 16:14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.
Job 16:16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness;
Job 16:17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Job 16:18"O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
Job 16:19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.
Job 16:20My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
Job 16:21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.
Job 16:22For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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