Thematic Bible
Job 16:1 (show verse)
In response, Job said:
Job 16:2 (show verse)
"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are!
Job 16:3 (show verse)
Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?
Job 16:4 (show verse)
"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you
Job 16:5 (show verse)
and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain.
Job 16:6 (show verse)
"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?"
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:7 (show verse)
"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world.
Job 16:8 (show verse)
You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face.
Job 16:9 (show verse)
His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me.
Job 16:10 (show verse)
People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me.
Job 16:11 (show verse)
God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked.
Job 16:12 (show verse)
"He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces then he really made me his target.
Job 16:13 (show verse)
His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground.
Job 16:14 (show verse)
Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior.
Job 16:15 (show verse)
"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust.
Job 16:16 (show verse)
My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids,
Job 16:17 (show verse)
even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure."
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:18 (show verse)
"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:19 (show verse)
Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:20 (show verse)
My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,
Job 16:21 (show verse)
crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:22 (show verse)
For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."