Thematic Bible
Job 16:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered and said,
Job 16:2 (show verse)
Many times I have heard such things; miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 16:3 (show verse)
Shall vain words have an end? Or what is it that emboldens thee to answer?
Job 16:4 (show verse)
I also could speak as ye do. I wish your soul were in my soul's stead, that I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
Job 16:5 (show verse)
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would assuage the pain.
Job 16:6 (show verse)
Though if I speak, my pain does not cease; and if I forbear to speak, it does not depart from me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:7 (show verse)
But now he has made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my company.
Job 16:8 (show verse)
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.
Job 16:9 (show verse)
His wrath has torn me and has been against me; he gnashed upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpened his eyes upon me.
Job 16:10 (show verse)
They have opened their mouth against me; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Job 16:11 (show verse)
God has delivered me unto the liar, and in the hands of the wicked he has caused me to tremble.
Job 16:12 (show verse)
I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark.
Job 16:13 (show verse)
His archers compassed me round about; he cleaved my kidneys asunder and did not spare; he poured out my gall upon the ground.
Job 16:14 (show verse)
He broke me with breach upon breach; he ran upon me like a giant.
Job 16:15 (show verse)
I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and put dust over my head.
Job 16:16 (show verse)
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,
Job 16:17 (show verse)
even though there is no injustice in my hands, and my prayer has been pure.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:18 (show verse)
O earth, do not cover my blood; and let there be no place where my cry is hidden.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:19 (show verse)
Certainly my witness is even now in the heavens, and my record is on high.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:20 (show verse)
Those who dispute with me are my friends, but my eyes shall pour out tears unto God.
Job 16:21 (show verse)
O that a man might dispute with God, as he can with his neighbour!
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:22 (show verse)
When the counted years are come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.