Job chapter 16 tag:brojed.org/cms,2026-04-06:20260406 2026-04-06T15:52:35+00:00 tag:brojed.org/cms,2026-04-06:20260406 2026-04-06T15:52:35+00:00

But Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all! What! Is there any reason in vain words? Or what will hinder you from answering? I also will speak as you do- if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] place, [ 16:5] then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you! [ 16:6] And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips. [ 16:7] For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound, and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded any less? [ 16:8] But now He has made me weary, and a worn out fool, and He has laid hold of me. [ 16:9] My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face. [ 16:10] In His anger He has cast me down; He has gnashed His teeth upon me: the weapons of His robbers have fallen upon me. [ 16:11] He has attacked me with the keen glances of His eyes; with His sharp [spear] He has struck me [down] upon my knees, and they have run upon me with one accord. [ 16:12] For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly. [ 16:13] When I was at peace He distracted me: He took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: He set me up as a mark. [ 16:14] They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing me they poured out my gall upon the ground. [ 16:15] They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might. [ 16:16] They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground. [ 16:17] My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids. [ 16:18] Yet there was no injustice on my hands, and my prayer is pure. [ 16:19] Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place. [ 16:20] And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my Advocate is on high. [ 16:21] Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let my eye weep before Him. [ 16:22] Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of man with his neighbor! [ 16:23] But my years are numbered and [their end] has come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.

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