Thematic Bible
Job 16:1 (show verse)
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Job 16:2 (show verse)
I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
Job 16:3 (show verse)
Is there no limit to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 16:4 (show verse)
I too could speak like you, if I were in your place. I could compose words against you. And I would shake my head at you.
Job 16:5 (show verse)
I could strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve your pain.
Job 16:6 (show verse)
If I speak, my pain is not lessened. If I hold back how am I eased?
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Job 16:7 (show verse)
He has exhausted me. You have lain waste all my company.
Job 16:8 (show verse)
You have shriveled me up. It has become a witness. And my leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
Job 16:9 (show verse)
His anger has torn me and hunted me down. He has gnashed at me with his teeth. My adversary glares at me.
Job 16:10 (show verse)
They have gaped at me with their mouth. They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt. They have massed themselves against me.
Job 16:11 (show verse)
God hands me over to ruffians. He tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12 (show verse)
I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target.
Job 16:13 (show verse)
His arrows surround me. Without mercy he splits my kidneys open. He pours out my gall on the ground.
Job 16:14 (show verse)
He breaks through me with breach after breach. He runs at me like a warrior.
Job 16:15 (show verse)
I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust.
Job 16:16 (show verse)
My face is flushed from weeping. The shadow of death is on my eyelids.
Job 16:17 (show verse)
There is no violence in my hands. My prayer is pure.
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Job 16:18 (show verse)
O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no resting place.
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Job 16:19 (show verse)
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
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Job 16:20 (show verse)
My friends are my scoffers. My eye weeps to God.
Job 16:21 (show verse)
O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!
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Job 16:22 (show verse)
For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.