Thematic Bible
Job 16:1 (show verse)
And Job answereth and saith: --
Job 16:2 (show verse)
I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 16:3 (show verse)
Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
Job 16:4 (show verse)
I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.
Job 16:5 (show verse)
I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
Job 16:6 (show verse)
If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:7 (show verse)
Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,
Job 16:8 (show verse)
And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.
Job 16:9 (show verse)
His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.
Job 16:10 (show verse)
They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.
Job 16:11 (show verse)
God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.
Job 16:12 (show verse)
At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.
Job 16:13 (show verse)
Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.
Job 16:14 (show verse)
He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.
Job 16:15 (show verse)
Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.
Job 16:16 (show verse)
My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade.
Job 16:17 (show verse)
Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:18 (show verse)
O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:19 (show verse)
Also, now, lo, in the heavens is my witness, And my testifier in the high places.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:20 (show verse)
My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:
Job 16:21 (show verse)
And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 16:22 (show verse)
When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.