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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 16 New Heart English Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NHEB</a> > Job 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/15.htm" title="Job 15">◄</a> Job 16 <a href="../job/17.htm" title="Job 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">New Heart English Bible</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>"I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But now he has worn me out. You have laid waste all my company.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>"Earth, do not cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Even now, look, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from where I shall not return.<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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