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What miserable comforters you all are!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?"<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces— then he really made me his target.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1 Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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