Geneva1599 - Job - 16

16:1  Bvt Iob answered, and said,

16:2  I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

16:3  Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?

16:4  I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,

16:5  But I woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.

16:6  Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?

16:7  But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,

16:8  And hast made me full of wrinkles which is a witnesse thereof, and my leannes ryseth vp in me, testifying the same in my face.

16:9  His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.

16:10  They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.

16:11  God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.

16:12  I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.

16:13  His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, and powreth my gall vpon the ground.

16:14  He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.

16:15  I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.

16:16  My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,

16:17  Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure.

16:18  O earth, couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no place.

16:19  For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.

16:20  My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.

16:21  Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!

16:22  For the yeeres accounted come, and I shall go the way, whence I shall not returne.