Job 16 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Job Says Friends Are Sorry Comforters

Job 16:1Then Job answered and said,

Job 16:2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

Job 16:3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

Job 16:4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

Job 16:5

Job 16:5But I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.

Job Says God Shattered Him

Job 16:6

Job 16:6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

Job 16:7

Job 16:7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

Job 16:8

Job 16:8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

Job 16:9

Job 16:9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

Job 16:10

Job 16:10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves against me.

Job 16:11

Job 16:11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

Job 16:12

Job 16:12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

Job 16:13

Job 16:13His archers encompass me; he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

Job 16:14

Job 16:14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

Job 16:15

Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

Job 16:16

Job 16:16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids are the shades of death;

Job 16:17

Job 16:17Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.

Job 16:18

Job 16:18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

Job 16:19

Job 16:19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

Job 16:20

Job 16:20My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God.

Job 16:21

Job 16:21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!

Job 16:22

Job 16:22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

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Job 16 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Job Says Friends Are Sorry Comforters

Job Says God Shattered Him

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