Job 16:12-22 - Everything Was Going Well

¹² I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers compassed me round about; he cleaved my kidneys asunder and did not spare; he poured out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He broke me with breach upon breach; he ran upon me like a giant.

¹⁵ I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and put dust over my head. ¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death, ¹⁷ even though there is no injustice in my hands, and my prayer has been pure.

¹⁸ O earth, do not cover my blood; and let there be no place where my cry is hidden. ¹⁹ Certainly my witness is even now in the heavens, and my record is on high. ²⁰ Those who dispute with me are my friends, but my eyes shall pour out tears unto God. ²¹ O that a man might dispute with God, as he can with his neighbour! ²² When the counted years are come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.