Job 16:12-22 - Everything Was Going Well

¹² I was at ease, but He shattered me;
He seized me by the scruff of the neck
and smashed me to pieces.
He set me up as His target;
¹³ His archers surround me.
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and pours my bile on the ground.
¹⁴ He breaks through my defenses again and again;
He charges at me like a warrior.

¹⁵ I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;
I have buried my strength in the dust.
¹⁶ My face has grown red with weeping,
and darkness covers my eyes,
¹⁷ although my hands are free from violence
and my prayer is pure.

¹⁸ Earth, do not cover my blood;
may my cry for help find no resting place.
¹⁹ Even now my witness is in heaven,
and my advocate is in the heights!
²⁰ My friends scoff at me
as I weep before God.
²¹ I wish that someone might arbitrate
between a man and God
just as a man pleads for his friend.
²² For only a few years will pass
before I go the way of no return.

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