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 ye all.
Job 16:3 (show verse)
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Job 16:4 (show verse)
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, 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 should assuage your grief.
Job 16:6 (show verse)
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:7 (show verse)
But now he hath 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 beareth witness to my face.
Job 16:9 (show verse)
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpeneth 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 against me.
Job 16:11 (show verse)
God hath 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 hath broken me asunder: he hath 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 encompass me; he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Job 16:14 (show verse)
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
Job 16:15 (show verse)
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Job 16:16 (show verse)
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids are the shades of death;
Job 16:17 (show verse)
Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:18 (show verse)
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:19 (show verse)
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:20 (show verse)
My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God.
Job 16:21 (show verse)
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:22 (show verse)
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.