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 you all.
Job 16:3 (show verse)
Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 16:4 (show verse)
I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.
Job 16:5 (show verse)
I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
Job 16:6 (show verse)
"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:7 (show verse)
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
Job 16:8 (show verse)
And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.
Job 16:9 (show verse)
He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
Job 16:10 (show verse)
Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.
Job 16:11 (show verse)
God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12 (show verse)
I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;
Job 16:13 (show verse)
his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
Job 16:14 (show verse)
He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
Job 16:15 (show verse)
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.
Job 16:16 (show verse)
My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,
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, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:19 (show verse)
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:20 (show verse)
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
Job 16:21 (show verse)
that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:22 (show verse)
For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.