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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 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="../">ESV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/16.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I have heard many such things;</span><br /><span class="indent">miserable comforters are you all.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Shall windy words have an end?</span><br /><span class="indent">Or what provokes you that you answer?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I also could speak as you do,</span><br /><span class="indent">if you were in my place;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I could join words together against you</span><br /><span class="indent">and shake my head at you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I could strengthen you with my mouth,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,</span><br /><span class="indent">and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Surely now God has worn me out;</span><br /><span class="indent">he has<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew you have; also verse 8">a</a></sup></span> made desolate all my company.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And he has shriveled me up,</span><br /><span class="indent">which is a witness against me,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and my leanness has risen up against me;</span><br /><span class="indent">it testifies to my face.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He has torn me in his wrath and hated me;</span><br /><span class="indent">he has gnashed his teeth at me;</span><br /><span class="indent">my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Men have gaped at me with their mouth;</span><br /><span class="indent">they have struck me insolently on the cheek;</span><br /><span class="indent">they mass themselves together against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">God gives me up to the ungodly</span><br /><span class="indent">and casts me into the hands of the wicked.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I was at ease, and he broke me apart;</span><br /><span class="indent">he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">he set me up as his target;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="indent">his archers surround me.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare;</span><br /><span class="indent">he pours out my gall on the ground.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He breaks me with breach upon breach;</span><br /><span class="indent">he runs upon me like a warrior.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin</span><br /><span class="indent">and have laid my strength in the dust.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My face is red with weeping,</span><br /><span class="indent">and on my eyelids is deep darkness,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">although there is no violence in my hands,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my prayer is pure.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“O earth, cover not my blood,</span><br /><span class="indent">and let my cry find no resting place.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he who testifies for me is on high.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My friends scorn me;</span><br /><span class="indent">my eye pours out tears to God,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">that he would argue the case of a man with God,</span><br /><span class="indent">as<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew and">b</a></sup></span> a son of man does with his neighbor.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For when a few years have come</span><br /><span class="indent">I shall go the way from which I shall not return.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Hebrew <i>you have</i>; 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