Job 16
16
Job Says Friends Are Sorry Comforters
1Then Job answered and said,
2“I have heard many such things;
Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all.
3“Is there no end to [your futile] words of wind?
Or what plagues you [so much] that you [so boldly] answer [me like this]?
4“I also could speak like you,
If you were in my place;
I could compose and join words together against you
And shake my head at you.
5“[But instead] I could strengthen and encourage you with [the words of] my mouth,
And the consolation and solace of my lips would soothe your suffering and lessen your anguish.
Job Says God Shattered Him
6¶“If I speak [to you miserable comforters], my pain is not relieved;
And if I refrain [from speaking], what [pain or anguish] leaves me?
7“But now God has exhausted me.
You [O Lord] have destroyed all my family and my household.
8“You have taken a firm hold on me and have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness [against me];
And my leanness [and infirmity] rises up [as evidence] against me,
It testifies to my face [about my guilt].
9“His wrath has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with his teeth;
My adversary sharpens His gaze and glares [with piercing eyes] at me.
10“They have gaped at me with their mouths,
With contempt they have struck me on the cheek;
They massed themselves together [and conspired] against me. [Ps 22:13; 35:21]
11“God hands me over to #16:11 MT reads boys.criminals
And tosses me [headlong] into the hands of the wicked.
12“I was [living] at ease, but He crushed me and broke me apart,
And He has seized me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.
13“His arrows surround me.
He pierces my kidneys (vital organs) without mercy;
He pours out my gall on the ground.
14“He attacks me, making wound after wound;
He runs at me like a warrior.
15“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin [as a sign of mourning]
And have defiled my horn (symbol of strength) in the dust.
16“My face is red and swollen with weeping,
And on my eyelids is the shadow of death [my eyes are dimmed],
17Although there is no violence or wrongdoing in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.
18¶“O earth, do not cover my blood,
And let there be no [resting] place for my cry [where it will cease being heard].
19“Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven,
And my Advocate [who vouches and testifies for me] is on high. [Rom 1:9]
20“My friends are scoffers [who ridicule];
My eye pours out tears to God.
21“Oh, that a man would mediate and plead with God [for me]
Just as a man [mediates and pleads] with his neighbor and friend. [1 Tim 2:5]
22“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.
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Job 16
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Job's Reply
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.
5 But 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.
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