RWebster - Job - 16

16:1  Then Job answered and said,

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

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

16:4  I 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16:12  I 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.

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

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

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

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

16:17  Not for anyinjustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.

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

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

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

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

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