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16 : 1 Then Job replied:
16 : 2 I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all!
16 : 3 Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
16 : 4 I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
16 : 5 But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
16 : 6 Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
16 : 7 Surely, O God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
16 : 8 You have bound me--and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
16 : 9 God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
16 : 10 Men open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
16 : 11 God has turned me over to evil men and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
16 : 12 All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
16 : 13 his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.
16 : 14 Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.
16 : 15 I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
16 : 16 My face is red with weeping, deep shadows ring my eyes;
16 : 17 yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
16 : 18 O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!
16 : 19 Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
16 : 20 My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
16 : 21 on behalf of a man he pleads with God as a man pleads for his friend.
16 : 22 Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return.