Job 16:1 (BSB)
Then Job answered:

Job 16:2 (BSB)
“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

Job 16:3 (BSB)
Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

Job 16:4 (BSB)
I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

Job 16:5 (BSB)
But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

Job 16:6 (BSB)
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

Job 16:7 (BSB)
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

Job 16:8 (BSB)
You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

Job 16:9 (BSB)
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

Job 16:10 (BSB)
They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

Job 16:11 (BSB)
God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

Job 16:12 (BSB)
I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

Job 16:13 (BSB)
His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

Job 16:14 (BSB)
He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

Job 16:15 (BSB)
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

Job 16:16 (BSB)
My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

Job 16:17 (BSB)
yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

Job 16:18 (BSB)
O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.

Job 16:19 (BSB)
Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

Job 16:20 (BSB)
My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

Job 16:21 (BSB)
Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

Job 16:22 (BSB)
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
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