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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h5 class="sp">Job</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.1-Job.16.2" class="v18_16_1">1-2</span>I have heard words like that before;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_1">the comfort you give is only torment.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.3" class="v18_16_3">3</span>Are you going to keep on talking forever?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_3">Do you always have to have the last word?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.4" class="v18_16_4">4</span>If you were in my place and I in yours,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_4">I could say everything you are saying.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_4">I could shake my head wisely</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_4">and drown you with a flood of words.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.5" class="v18_16_5">5</span>I could strengthen you with advice</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_5">and keep talking to comfort you.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.6" class="v18_16_6">6</span>But nothing I say helps,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_6">and being silent does not calm my pain.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.7" class="v18_16_7">7</span>You have worn me out, God;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_7">you have let my family be killed.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.8" class="v18_16_8">8</span>You have seized me; you are my enemy.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_8">I am skin and bones,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_8">and people take that as proof of my guilt.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.16.8!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.9" class="v18_16_9">9</span>In anger God tears me limb from limb;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_9">he glares at me with hate.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.10" class="v18_16_10">10</span>People sneer at me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_10">they crowd around me and slap my face.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.11" class="v18_16_11">11</span>God has handed me over to evil people.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.12" class="v18_16_12">12</span>I was living in peace,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_12">but God took me by the throat</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_12">and battered me and crushed me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_12">God uses me for target practice</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.13" class="v18_16_13">13</span>and shoots arrows at me from every side—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_13">arrows that pierce and wound me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_13">and even then he shows no pity.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.14" class="v18_16_14">14</span>He wounds me again and again;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_14">he attacks like a soldier gone mad with hate.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.15" class="v18_16_15">15</span>I mourn and wear clothes made of sackcloth,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_15">and I sit here in the dust defeated.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.16" class="v18_16_16">16</span>I have cried until my face is red,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_16">and my eyes are swollen and circled with shadows,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.17" class="v18_16_17">17</span>but I am not guilty of any violence,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_17">and my prayer to God is sincere.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_18"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.18" class="v18_16_18">18</span>O Earth, don't hide the wrongs done to me!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_18">Don't let my call for justice be silenced!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_19"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.19" class="v18_16_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.16.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> There is someone in heaven</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_19">to stand up for me and take my side.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_20"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.20" class="v18_16_20">20</span>My friends scorn me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_20">my eyes pour out tears to God.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_21"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.21" class="v18_16_21">21</span>I want someone to plead with God for me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_21">as one pleads for a friend.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_16_22"><span class="reftext" id="Job.16.22" class="v18_16_22">22</span>My years are passing now,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_16_22">and I walk the road of no return.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16.8: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Verses 7-8 in Hebrew are unclear.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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