Job 16

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Job 16

Job Says Friends Are Sorry Comforters

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1} Then Job ^(a)answered,

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

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“Is there no limit to ^(B)windy words?
Or what plagues you that you answer?

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

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“I could strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.

Job Says God Shattered Him

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

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“But now He has ^(E)exhausted me;
You have laid ^(F)waste all my company.

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

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“His anger has ^(I)torn me and ^(d)hunted me down,
He has ^(J)gnashed at me with His teeth;
My ^(K)adversary ^(e)glares at me.

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“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.

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“God hands me over to ruffians
And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

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“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.

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“His ^(Q)arrows surround me.
Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;
He pours out ^(R)my gall on the ground.

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

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“I have sewed ^(U)sackcloth over my skin
And ^(V)thrust my horn in the dust.

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

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Although there is no ^(Y)violence in my hands,
And ^(Z)my prayer is pure.

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

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“Even now, behold, ^(AA)my witness is in heaven,
And my ^(g)advocate is ^(AB)on high.

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

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“O that a man might plead with God
As a man with his neighbor!

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

Footnotes:

a. Job 16:1: ['Lit ', answered and said]

b. Job 16:2: ['Lit ', Comforters of trouble]

c. Job 16:4: ['Lit ', your soul were in place of my soul]

d. Job 16:9: ['Lit ', borne a grudge against me]

e. Job 16:9: ['Lit ', sharpens his eyes]

f. Job 16:10: ['Lit ', struck]

g. Job 16:19: ['Or ', witness]

h. Job 16:20: ['Or ', drips]

Cross references:

A. Job 16:2: Job 13:4; Job 21:34

B. Job 16:3: Job 6:26

C. Job 16:4: Psalm 22:7; Psalm 109:25; Zephaniah 2:15; Matthew 27:39

D. Job 16:6: Job 9:27; Job 9:28

E. Job 16:7: Job 7:3

F. Job 16:7: Job 16:20; Job 19:13-15

G. Job 16:8: Job 10:17

H. Job 16:8: Job 19:20; Psalm 109:24

I. Job 16:9: Job 19:11; Hosea 6:1

J. Job 16:9: Psalm 35:16; Lamentations 2:16; Acts 7:54

K. Job 16:9: Job 13:24; Job 33:10

L. Job 16:10: Psalm 22:13

M. Job 16:10: Isaiah 50:6; Lamentations 3:30; Acts 23:2

N. Job 16:10: Job 30:12; Psalm 35:15

O. Job 16:12: Job 9:17

P. Job 16:12: Job 7:20; Lamentations 3:12

Q. Job 16:13: Job 6:4; Job 19:12; Job 25:3

R. Job 16:13: Job 20:25

S. Job 16:14: Job 9:17

T. Job 16:14: Joel 2:7

U. Job 16:15: Genesis 37:34; Psalm 69:11

V. Job 16:15: Psalm 7:5

W. Job 16:16: Job 16:20

X. Job 16:16: Job 24:17

Y. Job 16:17: Isaiah 59:6; Jonah 3:8

Z. Job 16:17: Job 27:4

AA. Job 16:19: Genesis 31:50; Job 19:25-27; Romans 1:9; Philippians 1:8; 1 Thessalonians 2:5

AB. Job 16:19: Job 31:2

AC. Job 16:20: Job 17:7

AD. Job 16:22: Job 3:13