Job 16:12-22 - Everything Was Going Well
12 I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target. 13 His arrows surround me. Without mercy he splits my kidneys open. He pours out my gall on the ground. 14 He breaks through me with breach after breach. He runs at me like a warrior.
15 I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust. 16 My face is flushed from weeping. The shadow of death is on my eyelids. 17 There is no violence in my hands. My prayer is pure.
18 O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no resting place. 19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. 20 My friends are my scoffers. My eye weeps to God. 21 O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor! 22 For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.