Job 16
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Then Job answered:
1Then Job answered, and said:
2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
2I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.
3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
3Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?
4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
4I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.
5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
5I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.
6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
6I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.
7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
7But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.
8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
8But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.
9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
9My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.
10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
10He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes.
11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
11They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.
12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
12God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
13I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark.
14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
14He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth.
15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
15He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.
16My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
16I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.
17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
17My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.
18O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
18These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.
19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
19O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.
20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
20For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.
21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
21My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.
22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
22And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!
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23For behold short years pass away and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.
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