Thematic Bible

Job 16:1

Then Job answered:

Job 16:2

I have heard many things like these.
You are all miserable comforters.

Job 16:3

Is there no end to your empty words?
What provokes you that you continue testifying?

Job 16:4

If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.

Job 16:5

Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth,
and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.

Job 16:6

Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,
and if I hold back, what have I lost?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 16:7

Surely He has now exhausted me.
You have devastated my entire family.

Job 16:8

You have shriveled me up—it has become a witness;
My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

Job 16:9

His anger tears at me, and He harasses me.
He gnashes His teeth at me.
My enemy pierces me with His eyes.

Job 16:10

They open their mouths against me
and strike my cheeks with contempt;
they join themselves together against me.

Job 16:11

God hands me over to unjust men;
He throws me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 16:12

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;

Job 16:13

His archers surround me.
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and pours my bile on the ground.

Job 16:14

He breaks through my defenses again and again;
He charges at me like a warrior.

Job 16:15

I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;
I have buried my strength in the dust.

Job 16:16

My face has grown red with weeping,
and darkness covers my eyes,

Job 16:17

although my hands are free from violence
and my prayer is pure.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 16:18

Earth, do not cover my blood;
may my cry for help find no resting place.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 16:19

Even now my witness is in heaven,
and my advocate is in the heights!
No Themes for this verse.

Job 16:20

My friends scoff at me
as I weep before God.

Job 16:21

I wish that someone might arbitrate
between a man and God
just as a man pleads for his friend.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 16:22

For only a few years will pass
before I go the way of no return.


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