Job 16
Job's Reply: Miserable Comforters Are You All
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. Word: 2 Kings 19:21. Parallel theme: Psalms 22:7, 109:25, Jeremiah 18:16, Lamentations 2:15
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. Parallel theme: Galatians 6:1
6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? Parallel theme: Job 10:1
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. Witness: Job 10:17. Parallel theme: Job 19:20, Ruth 1:21
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. Parallel theme: 1 Kings 22:24, Psalms 22:13, 35:15, Isaiah 50:6, Lamentations 3:30, Micah 5:1, Acts 23:2, 2 Corinthians 11:20 +3
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. Parallel theme: Job 6:4, 20:25, Lamentations 2:11
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. Parallel theme: Genesis 37:34, 1 Kings 21:27, Psalms 7:5, 75:5, Isaiah 22:12
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; Parallel theme: Job 17:7, Psalms 31:9, 32:3, 69:3, 102:9, Isaiah 52:14, Lamentations 1:16, Mark 14:34 +3
17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. Prayer: Proverbs 15:8
My Witness Is in Heaven
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. Blood: Genesis 4:11, Isaiah 26:21, Ezekiel 24:7
19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. Witness: Genesis 31:50, Romans 1:9, 1 Thessalonians 2:10. Parallel theme: 2 Corinthians 11:31
20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto GodGod: אֱלֹהִים (Elohim). The Hebrew Elohim (אֱלֹהִים) is a plural form denoting majesty and fullness of deity. Though grammatically plural, it takes singular verbs when referring to the one true God, suggesting the Trinity's plurality within unity.. Parallel theme: Job 16:4, 17:2, Psalms 109:4, 142:2, Hebrews 5:7
21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! References God: Job 13:3, Romans 9:20. Parallel theme: Job 13:22, 31:35, Ecclesiastes 6:10, Isaiah 45:9
22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Parallel theme: Job 14:5, 14:10, 14:14