Job16:1 Then Job answered:
Job16:2 "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
Job16:3 Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?
Job16:4 I also could talk as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
Job16:5 I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
Job16:6 "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
Job16:7 Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
Job16:8 And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; my leanness has risen up against me, and it testifies to my face.
Job16:9 He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
Job16:10 They have gaped at me with their mouths; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.
Job16:11 God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Job16:12 I was at ease, and he broke me in two; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;
Job16:13 his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and shows no mercy; he pours out my gall on the ground.
Job16:14 He bursts upon me again and again; he rushes at me like a warrior.
Job16:15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.
Job16:16 My face is red with weeping, and deep darkness is on my eyelids,
Job16:17 though there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Job16:18 "O earth, do not cover my blood; let my outcry find no resting place.
Job16:19 Even now, in fact, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.
Job16:20 My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
Job16:21 that he would maintain the right of a mortal with God, as one does for a neighbor.
Job16:22 For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.