Job Chapter 16 American Standard-ASV1901

Job 16:1

Then Job answered and said,

Job 16:2

I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.

Job 16:3

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

Job 16:4

I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.

Job 16:5

`But' I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage `your grief'.

Job 16:6

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

Job 16:7

But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.

Job 16:8

And thou hast laid fast hold on me, `which' is a witness `against me': And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

Job 16:9

He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

Job 16:10

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

Job 16:11

God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 16:12

I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

Job 16:13

His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

Job 16:14

He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

Job 16:16

My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

Job 16:17

Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

Job 16:18

O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no `resting' -place.

Job 16:19

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high.

Job 16:20

My friends scoff at me: `But' mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

Job 16:21

That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!

Job 16:22

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.