Thematic Bible
Job 16:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered, and said,
Job 16:2 (show verse)
I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 16:3 (show verse)
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?
Job 16:4 (show verse)
I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
Job 16:5 (show verse)
[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage [your grief].
Job 16:6 (show verse)
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and though I forbear, what am I eased?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:7 (show verse)
But now he has made me weary. Thou have made desolate all my company.
Job 16:8 (show verse)
And thou have laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.
Job 16:9 (show verse)
He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.
Job 16:10 (show verse)
They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
Job 16:11 (show verse)
God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12 (show verse)
I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.
Job 16:13 (show verse)
His archers encompass me round about. He splits my reins apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground.
Job 16:14 (show verse)
He breaks me with breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a giant.
Job 16:15 (show verse)
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.
Job 16:16 (show verse)
My face is red with weeping, and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,
Job 16:17 (show verse)
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:18 (show verse)
O earth, do not cover thou my blood, and let my cry have no [resting] place.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:19 (show verse)
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who vouches for me is on high.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:20 (show verse)
My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God
Job 16:21 (show verse)
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbor!
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:22 (show verse)
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.