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<p class="indent2">Or what pains you that you answer? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I too could speak like you, <p class="indent2">If your soul was in the place of my soul. <p class="indent2">I could compose words against you <p class="indent2">And shake my head at you. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I could encourage you with my mouth, <p class="indent2">And the solace of my lips could lessen <i>your pain</i>. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“If I speak, my pain is not lessened, <p class="indent2">And if I cease, what will go forth from me? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But now He has exhausted me; <p class="indent2">You have made desolate all my company. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You have shriveled me up, <p class="indent2">It has become a witness; <p class="indent2">And my leanness rises up against me, <p class="indent2">It answers to my face. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>His anger has torn me and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>hunted me down; <p class="indent2">He has gnashed at me with His teeth; <p class="indent2">My adversary sharpens his eyes <i>to look</i> at me. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They have opened their mouth wide at me; <p class="indent2">They have struck me on the cheek in reproach; <p class="indent2">They have massed themselves against me. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>God hands me over to ruffians <p class="indent2">And tosses me into the hands of the wicked. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I was at ease, but He shattered me, <p class="indent2">And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; <p class="indent2">He has also set me up as His target. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His arrows surround me. <p class="indent2">Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; <p class="indent2">He pours out my gall on the ground. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He breaks through me with breach after breach; <p class="indent2">He runs at me like a warrior. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I have sewed sackcloth over my skin <p class="indent2">And thrust my horn in the dust. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>My face is flushed from weeping, <p class="indent2">And the shadow of death is on my eyelids, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><i>Why?</i>—because there is no violence in my hands, <p class="indent2">And my prayer is pure. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“O earth, do not cover my blood, <p class="indent2">And let there be no <i>resting</i> place for my cry. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, <p class="indent2">And my <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>advocate is on high. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My friends are my scoffers; <p class="indent2">My eye <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>weeps to God. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>O that a man might argue with God <p class="indent2">As a man with his neighbor! <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For when a few years are past, <p class="indent2">I shall go the way of no return.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>Comforters of trouble</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>borne a grudge against me</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>witness</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Or <i>drips</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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