The Book of Job 16

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1 Then Job answered and said ⚑

2 I have heard many such things miserable comforters are ye all ⚑

3 Shall vain words have an end or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest ⚑

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 mine head at you ⚑

5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief ⚑

6 Though I speak my grief is not asswaged and though I forbear what am I eased ⚑

7 But now he hath made me weary thou hast made desolate all my company ⚑

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 ⚑

9 He teareth me in his wrath who hateth me he gnasheth upon me with his teeth mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me ⚑

10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully they have gathered themselves together against me ⚑

11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked ⚑

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 ⚑

13 His archers compass me round about he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare he poureth out my gall upon the ground ⚑

14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach he runneth upon me like a giant ⚑

15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust ⚑

16 My face is foul with weeping and on my eyelids is the shadow of death ⚑

17 Not for any injustice in mine hands also my prayer is pure ⚑

18 O earth cover not thou my blood and let my cry have no place ⚑

19 Also now behold my witness is in heaven and my record is on high ⚑

20 My friends scorn me but mine eye poureth out tears unto God ⚑

21 O that one might plead for a man with God as a man pleadeth for his neighbour ⚑

22 When a few years are come then I shall go the way whence I shall not return ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain