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What ails you that you keep on arguing?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You have shriveled me up--and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href="//niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="//biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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