Thematic Bible
Job 16:1 (show verse)
And Job answered and said,
Job 16:2 (show verse)
I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
Job 16:3 (show verse)
Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Job 16:4 (show verse)
I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
Job 16:5 (show verse)
But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage your pain.
Job 16:6 (show verse)
If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
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Job 16:7 (show verse)
But now he hath made me weary; ... thou hast made desolate all my family;
Job 16:8 (show verse)
Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.
Job 16:9 (show verse)
His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; as mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.
Job 16:10 (show verse)
They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.
Job 16:11 (show verse)
God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12 (show verse)
I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
Job 16:13 (show verse)
His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Job 16:14 (show verse)
He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.
Job 16:15 (show verse)
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.
Job 16:16 (show verse)
My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job 16:17 (show verse)
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
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Job 16:18 (show verse)
O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!
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Job 16:19 (show verse)
Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.
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Job 16:20 (show verse)
My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.
Job 16:21 (show verse)
Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!
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Job 16:22 (show verse)
For years few in number shall pass, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.