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Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease — what goeth from me?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He breaketh me — breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids [is] death-shade.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer [is] pure.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Also, now, lo, in the heavens [is] my witness, And my testifier in the high places.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My interpreter [is] my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/job/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>