Thematic Bible
Job 16:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered and said,
Job 16:2 (show verse)
"I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}.
Job 16:3 (show verse)
[Is there] a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer?
Job 16:4 (show verse)
I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.
Job 16:5 (show verse)
I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would ease the pain.
Job 16:6 (show verse)
If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and [if] I cease, how much will leave me?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:7 (show verse)
"Surely now he has worn me out; you have devastated all my company.
Job 16:8 (show verse)
Thus you shriveled me up; it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.
Job 16:9 (show verse)
His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.
Job 16:10 (show verse)
They gaped at me with their mouth; they struck my cheeks with disgrace; they have massed themselves together against me.
Job 16:11 (show verse)
God delivers me to an evil one, and he casts me into the hands of [the] wicked.
Job 16:12 (show verse)
"I was at ease, then he broke me in two, and he seized [me] by my neck; then he shattered me and set me up as a target for him.
Job 16:13 (show verse)
His archers surround me; he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion; he pours out my gall on the ground.
Job 16:14 (show verse)
He breached me {breach upon breach}; he rushes at me like a warrior.
Job 16:15 (show verse)
"I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have inserted {my pride} in the dust.
Job 16:16 (show verse)
My face is red because of weeping, and deep shadows [are] on my eyelids,
Job 16:17 (show verse)
{although} violence [is] not on my hands, and my prayer [is] pure.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:18 (show verse)
"O earth, you should not cover my blood, and let there be no place for my cry for help.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:19 (show verse)
So now look, my witness [is] in the heavens, and he [who] vouches for me [is] in the heights.
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)
and it argues for a mortal with God, and [as] {a human} for his friend.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:22 (show verse)
Indeed, [after] {a few years} have come, then I will go [the] way [from which] I will not return.