Thematic Bible
Job 16:1 (show verse)
Job answered, and said,
Job 16:2 (show verse)
"I have oft times heard such things. Miserable givers of comfort are ye, all the sort of you.
Job 16:3 (show verse)
Shall not thy vain words come yet to an end? Or, hast thou yet any more to say?
Job 16:4 (show verse)
I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my soul's stead: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.
Job 16:5 (show verse)
I should comfort you with my mouth, and release your pain with the talking of my lips.
Job 16:6 (show verse)
"But what shall I do? For all my words, my sorrow will not cease: and though I hold my tongue, yet will it not depart from me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:7 (show verse)
But now that God hath sent me adversity, thou hast troubled all my congregation.
Job 16:8 (show verse)
And that thou hast filled me with wrinkles, my flesh is witness; and my leanness riseth up against me and beareth witness thereof in my face.
Job 16:9 (show verse)
He is angry at me, he hateth me, and gnasheth upon me with his teeth. Mine enemy scowleth upon me with his eyes.
Job 16:10 (show verse)
They have opened their mouths wide upon me, and smitten me upon the cheek despitefully, they have eased themselves through mine adversity.
Job 16:11 (show verse)
God hath given me over to the ungodly, and delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12 (show verse)
I was some time in wealth, but suddenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at.
Job 16:13 (show verse)
His archers compass me round about; he hath wounded my loins, and not spared. My bowels hath he poured upon the ground.
Job 16:14 (show verse)
He hath given me one wound upon another, and is fallen upon me like a giant.
Job 16:15 (show verse)
I have sewed a sackcloth upon my skin, and lie with my strength in the dust.
Job 16:16 (show verse)
My face is swollen with weeping, and mine eyes are waxen dim.
Job 16:17 (show verse)
"Howbeit there is no wickedness in my hands, and my prayer is clean.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:18 (show verse)
O earth, cover not my blood, and let my crying find no room.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:19 (show verse)
For lo, my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth me, is above in the height.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:20 (show verse)
My friends laugh me to scorn, but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Job 16:21 (show verse)
Though a body might plead with God, as one man doth with another,
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:22 (show verse)
yet the number of my years are come - and I must go the way from whence I shall not turn again.