Job 16

¹Then Job answered and said,🔗🔍
²I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.🔗🔍
³Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?🔗🔍
⁴I 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.🔗🔍
⁵But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.🔗🔍
⁶Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?🔗🔍
⁷But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.🔗🔍
⁸And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.🔗🔍
⁹He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.🔗🔍
¹⁰They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.🔗🔍
¹¹God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.🔗🔍
¹²I 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.🔗🔍
¹³His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.🔗🔍
¹⁴He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.🔗🔍
¹⁵I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.🔗🔍
¹⁶My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;🔗🔍
¹⁷Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.🔗🔍
¹⁸O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.🔗🔍
¹⁹Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.🔗🔍
²⁰My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.🔗🔍
²¹O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!🔗🔍
²²When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.🔗🔍