Job 16

² I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

² “I have heard many such things;^(b)(A)Sorry comforters are you all.

² I have heard many things like these.You are all miserable comforters.^(A)

² "I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are!

² “I have heard many such things;Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all.

⁴ I 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.

⁴ “I too could speak like you,If ^(c)I were in your place.I could compose words against youAnd ^(C)shake my head at you.

⁴ If you were in my place I could also talk like you.I could string words together against youand shake my head at you.

⁴ "I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you

⁴ “I also could speak like you,If you were in my place;I could compose and join words together against youAnd shake my head at you.

⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

⁶ “If I speak, ^(D)my pain is not lessened,And if I hold back, what has left me?

⁶ Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,and if I hold back, what have I lost?

⁶ "But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?"

⁶ “If I speak [to you miserable comforters], my pain is not relieved;And if I refrain [from speaking], what [pain or anguish] leaves me?

⁸ And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

⁸ “You have shriveled me up,^(G)It has become a witness;And my ^(H)leanness rises up against me,It testifies to my face.

⁸ You have shriveled me up^(c)—it has become a witness;My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

⁸ You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face.

⁸ “You have taken a firm hold on me and have shriveled me up,It has become a witness [against me];And my leanness [and infirmity] rises up [as evidence] against me,It testifies to my face [about my guilt].

¹⁰ They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

¹⁰ “They have ^(L)gaped at me with their mouth,They have ^(f)(M)slapped me on the cheek with contempt;They have ^(N)massed themselves against me.

¹⁰ They open their mouths against meand strike my cheeks with contempt;^(E)they join themselves together against me.

¹⁰ People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me.

¹⁰ “They have gaped at me with their mouths,With contempt they have struck me on the cheek;They massed themselves together [and conspired] against me.^(A)

¹² I 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.

¹² “I was at ease, but ^(O)He shattered me,And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;He has also set me up as His ^(P)target.

¹² I was at ease, but He shattered me;He seized me by the scruff of the neckand smashed me to pieces.He set me up as His target;^(F)

¹² "He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces then he really made me his target.

¹² “I was [living] at ease, but He crushed me and broke me apart,And He has seized me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces;He has also set me up as His target.

¹⁴ He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

¹⁴ “He ^(S)breaks through me with breach after breach;He ^(T)runs at me like a warrior.

¹⁴ He breaks through my defenses again and again;^(f)He charges at me like a warrior.^(G)

¹⁴ Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior.

¹⁴ “He attacks me, making wound after wound;He runs at me like a warrior.

¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

¹⁶ “My face is flushed from ^(W)weeping,^(X)And deep darkness is on my eyelids,

¹⁶ My face has grown red with weeping,and darkness^(I) covers my eyes,

¹⁶ My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids,

¹⁶ “My face is red and swollen with weeping,And on my eyelids is the shadow of death [my eyes are dimmed],

¹⁸ O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

¹⁸ “O earth, do not cover my blood,And let there be no resting place for my cry.

¹⁸ Earth, do not cover my blood;may my cry for help find no resting place.^(K)

¹⁸ "Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest.

¹⁸ “O earth, do not cover my blood,And let there be no [resting] place for my cry [where it will cease being heard].

²⁰ My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

²⁰ “My friends are my scoffers;^(AC)My eye ^(h)weeps to God.

²⁰ My friends scoff at meas I weep before God.

²⁰ My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,

²⁰ “My friends are scoffers [who ridicule];My eye pours out tears to God.

²² When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

²² “For when a few years are past,I shall go the way ^(AD)of no return.

²² For only a few years will passbefore I go the way of no return. >

²² For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."

²² “For when a few years are past,I shall go the way of no return.