Job 16Job16

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1. Job Decries His Comforters

2. 1KJVThen Job answered and said,BSBBSB: Then Job answered:
3. 2KJVI have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.BSBBSB: “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
4. 3KJVShall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?BSBBSB: Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
5. 4KJVI also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.BSBBSB: I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
6. 5KJVBut I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.BSBBSB: But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
7. 6KJVThough I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?BSBBSB: Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
8. 7KJVBut now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.BSBBSB: Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
9. 8KJVAnd thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.BSBBSB: You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
10. 9KJVHe teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.BSBBSB: His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
11. 10KJVThey have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.BSBBSB: They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
12. 11KJVGod hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.BSBBSB: God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
13. 12KJVI was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.BSBBSB: I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
14. 13KJVHis archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.BSBBSB: His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
15. 14KJVHe breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.BSBBSB: He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
16. 15KJVI have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.BSBBSB: I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
17. 16KJVMy face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;BSBBSB: My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
18. 17KJVNot for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.BSBBSB: yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
19. 18KJVO earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.BSBBSB: O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
20. 19KJVAlso now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.BSBBSB: Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
21. 20KJVMy friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.BSBBSB: My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
22. 21KJVO that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!BSBBSB: Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
23. 22KJVWhen a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.BSBBSB: For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.