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Chapter 16
Job | GodsWord | 16:2 | "I have heard many things like this before. You are all pathetic at comforting me. | |
Job | GodsWord | 16:3 | Will your long-winded speeches never end? What disturbs you that you keep on answering me? | |
Job | GodsWord | 16:4 | I, too, could speak like you if we could trade places. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you. | |
Job | GodsWord | 16:8 | You have shriveled me up, which itself is a witness against me. My frail body rises up and testifies against me. | |
Job | GodsWord | 16:9 | "God's anger tore me apart and attacked me. He gritted his teeth at me. My opponent looked sharply at me. | |
Job | GodsWord | 16:10 | People gaped at me with wide-open mouths. In scorn they slapped my cheeks. They united against me. | |
Job | GodsWord | 16:11 | God handed me over to unjust people and threw me into the hands of wicked people. | |
Job | GodsWord | 16:12 | I was at ease, and he shattered me. He grabbed me by the back of the neck and smashed my skull. He set me up as his target, | |
Job | GodsWord | 16:13 | and his archers surrounded me. He slashes open my kidneys without mercy and spills my blood on the ground. | |
Job | GodsWord | 16:19 | Even now, look! My witness is in heaven, and the one who testifies for me is above, | |