ABP - Job - 16

16:1  And undertaking, Job says,

16:2  I have heard [2such things 1many]. [3comforters 2bad 1You are all].

16:3  For what, [2order 1is there] in words of wind? or what shall it trouble you that you answer?

16:4  I also [2as 3you 1could speak] if [3laid 1indeed 2your life] instead of my life. So then I shall assail against you with words, and I will shake [2as 3you 1my head].

16:5  And may that there be strength in my mouth, [4the movement 1then 5of my lips 2I would not 3spare].

16:6  For if I shall speak [2shall not 3ache 1my wound]; and if also I keep silent, how less will I be pierced?

16:7  But now, [2me exhausted 1he has made], [2moron 1a festering], and it took hold of me.

16:8  For [2a testimony 1I became], and [2rose up 3in 4me 1my lie]; according to my face it was answered.

16:9  In anger the one dealing with me cast me down; he gnashed against me with his teeth; the arrows of his marauders [2upon 3me 1have fallen];

16:10  [3points 4of his eyes 1he assailed me 2with the sharp]; he smote me onto my knees; and with one accord they ran upon me.

16:11  [4delivered 1For 5me 2the 3 lord] into the hands of the unjust, and unto the impious he tossed me.

16:12  Making peace he effaced me; taking me by the hair of the head he plucked it out; he placed me as if an exemplar.

16:13  They encircled me with lances, casting into my kidney, not sparing; they poured out [2onto 3the 4earth 1my bile].

16:14  They threw me down, downfall upon downfall; they ran against me prevailing;

16:15  [2sackcloth 1they sewed] upon my hide; and my strength [2in 3the ground 1was extinguished].

16:16  My belly burns from weeping, and upon my eyelids a shadow of death.

16:17  [4unjust thing 1And 3not one 2there was] in my hands, [3vow 1and 2my] is pure.

16:18  O earth, you should not cover over the blood of my flesh, nor may there be a place for my cry.

16:19  And now behold, [2is in 3the heavens 1my witness], and my joint witness is in the highest.

16:20  May [3arrive 1my 2supplication] unto the lord, and before him may [3drip tears 1my 2eye].

16:21  And may it be reproof to man before the lord, and to a son of man to his neighbor.

16:22  [3years 1But 2counted] have come; and in the way in which I shall not be returned -- I shall go.