Job 16 - Meaning, Themes & Application

" Then Job answered and said, "

" I have heard many such things: miserable comforters "

" Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? "

" 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 mine head at "

" But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage "

" Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? "

" But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. "

" 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. "

" He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes "

" They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together "

" God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. "

" 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. "

" His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. "

" He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. "

" I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. "

" My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; "

" Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. "

" O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. "

" Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. "

" My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. "

" O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! "

" When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. "