Job Chapter 16 Darby English Bible

Job 16:1

And Job answered and said,

Job 16:2

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

Job 16:3

Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

Job 16:4

I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;

Job 16:5

[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].

Job 16:6

If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?

Job 16:7

But now he hath made me weary; ... thou hast made desolate all my family;

Job 16:8

Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.

Job 16:9

His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.

Job 16:10

They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.

Job 16:11

ùGod hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 16:12

I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

Job 16:13

His arrows encompass 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 mighty man.

Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled 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 my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!

Job 16:19

Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.

Job 16:20

My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.

Job 16:21

Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!

Job 16:22

For years [few] in number shall pass, -- and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.