Job 16

Job Reproaches His Pitiless Friends

16Then Job answered and said:H347H6030H5592"I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!H8085H7227H5999H51623Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?H7307H1697H7093H4834H60304I also could speak as you do, If your soul were in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you, And shake my head at you;H1696H3863H5315H3426H5315H2266H4405H5128H7218H11195But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.H553H1119H6310H5205H8193H28206"Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased?H1696H3511H2820H2308H19807But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company.H3811H8074H57128You have shriveled me up, And it is a witness against me; My leanness rises up against me And bears witness to my face.H7059H5707H3585H6965H6030H64409He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; My adversary sharpens His gaze on me.H2963H639H7852H2786H8127H6862H3913H586910They gape at me with their mouth, They strike me reproachfully on the cheek, They gather together against me.H6473H6310H5221H3895H2781H4390H316211God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.H410H5462H5760H3399H3027H756312I was at ease, but He has shattered me; He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces; He has set me up for His target,H7961H6565H270H6203H6327H6965H430713His archers surround me. He pierces my heart and does not pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.H7228H5437H6398H3629H6398H2550H8210H4845H77614He breaks me with wound upon wound; He runs at me like a warrior.H6555H6556H6440H6556H7323H136815"I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, And laid my head in the dust.H8609H8242H1539H5953H7161H608316My face is flushed from weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;H6440H2560H1065H6079H675717Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.H2555H3709H8605H213418"O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no resting place!H776H3680H1818H2201H472519Surely even now my witness is in heaven, And my evidence is on high.H5707H8064H7717H479120My friends scorn me; My eyes pour out tears to God.H7453H3887H5869H1811H43321Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor!H3198H1397H433H120H1121H745322For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return.H4557H8141H857H1980H734H7725