Job 16:5 - Prayer Tents

Job Reproaches His Pitiless Friends

16Then Job answered and said:H347H6030H559 2"I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!H8085H7227H5999H5162 3Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?H7307H1697H7093H4834H6030 4I 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;H1696H3863H5315H3426H5315H2266H4405H5128H7218H1119 5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.H553H1119H6310H5205H8193H2820 6"Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased?H1696H3511H2820H2308H1980 7But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company.H3811H8074H5712 8You have shriveled me up, And it is a witness against me; My leanness rises up against me And bears witness to my face.H7059H5707H3585H6965H6030H6440 9He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; My adversary sharpens His gaze on me.H2963H639H7852H2786H8127H6862H3913H5869 10They gape at me with their mouth, They strike me reproachfully on the cheek, They gather together against me.H6473H6310H5221H3895H2781H4390H3162 11God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.H410H5462H5760H3399H3027H7563 12I 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,H7961H6565H270H6203H6327H6965H4307 13His archers surround me. He pierces my heart and does not pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.H7228H5437H6398H3629H6398H2550H8210H4845H776 14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He runs at me like a warrior.H6555H6556H6440H6556H7323H1368 15"I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, And laid my head in the dust.H8609H8242H1539H5953H7161H6083 16My face is flushed from weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;H6440H2560H1065H6079H6757 17Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.H2555H3709H8605H2134 18"O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no resting place!H776H3680H1818H2201H4725 19Surely even now my witness is in heaven, And my evidence is on high.H5707H8064H7717H4791 20My friends scorn me; My eyes pour out tears to God.H7453H3887H5869H1811H433 21Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor!H3198H1397H433H120H1121H7453 22For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return.H4557H8141H857H1980H734H7725