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 vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?
Job 16:4 (show verse)
I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's place, 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 moving of my lips would relieve your grief.
Job 16:6 (show verse)
Though I speak, my grief is not relieved: and though I forbear, how am I eased?
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Job 16:7 (show verse)
But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.
Job 16:8 (show verse)
And you have 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)
He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy 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 have gathered themselves together against me.
Job 16:11 (show verse)
God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12 (show verse)
I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
Job 16:13 (show verse)
His archers surround me, he slashes my kidneys asunder, 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 warrior.
Job 16:15 (show verse)
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and laid my strength in the dust.
Job 16:16 (show verse)
My face is foul from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job 16:17 (show verse)
Not for any violence in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
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Job 16:18 (show verse)
O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no place.
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Job 16:19 (show verse)
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
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Job 16:20 (show verse)
My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto God.
Job 16:21 (show verse)
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
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Job 16:22 (show verse)
When a few years have come, then I shall go the way where I shall not return.