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Miserable comforters are you all!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Is there no end to windy words? Or what provokes you that you should answer?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I also could speak as you <i>do</i>; if your soul were in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would assuage <i>your grief</i>.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and <i>though</i> I forbear speaking, in what way am I eased?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But now He has made me exhausted; You have made all my company desolate.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And You have shriveled me up, for it is a witness a<i>gainst me</i>: and my leanness rises up in me, and it is seen in my face.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>His anger has torn and assailed <i>me</i>; He gnashes upon me with His teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes at me;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They have gaped upon me with their mouth; and have scornfully beaten me on the cheek; they gather themselves together against me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>God has delivered me to the ungodly; and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I was at ease, but He has dashed me in pieces; yea, <i>He has</i> also seized <i>me</i> by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His archers hem me in; He splits my reins asunder, and does not spare; He pours out my gall upon the ground.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He breaks me with breach upon breach; He runs upon me like a giant.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I have sewed sackcloth on my skin and laid my horn in the dust.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>My face is reddened from weeping, and on my eyelids <i>is</i> the shadow of death;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Though no injustice <i>is</i> in my hand, and also my prayer <i>is</i> pure.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Oh, earth, do not cover my blood, and let not my cry have a resting place.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Also now, behold, my witness <i>is</i> in heaven, and He who testifies of me <i>is</i> on high.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out <i>tears</i> to God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Oh, that a man might plead with God, as a man pleads with his neighbor!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="https://afaithfulversion.org/">A Faithful Version</a><br><br>Copyright © 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011<br>York Publishing Company<br>Post Office Box 1038<br>Hollister, California 95024-1038<br><br>All rights reserved.<br>All Scripture may be freely quoted except for brief excerpts for review purposes, no part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means--electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or information storage and retrieval systems, or use of hermeneutical conclusions of copyright owner.<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></td></tr></table></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>