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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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/job/16.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job’s Fifth Speech: A Response to Eliphaz</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job spoke again:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“I have heard all this before.</p><p class="line2">What miserable comforters you are!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air?</p><p class="line2">What makes you keep on talking?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I could say the same things if you were in my place.</p><p class="line2">I could spout off criticism and shake my head at you.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But if it were me, I would encourage you.</p><p class="line2">I would try to take away your grief.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Instead, I suffer if I defend myself,</p><p class="line2">and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“O God, you have ground me down</p><p class="line2">and devastated my family.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>As if to prove I have sinned, you’ve reduced me to skin and bones.</p><p class="line2">My gaunt flesh testifies against me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>God hates me and angrily tears me apart.</p><p class="line2">He snaps his teeth at me</p><p class="line2">and pierces me with his eyes.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>People jeer and laugh at me.</p><p class="line2">They slap my cheek in contempt.</p><p class="line2">A mob gathers against me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>God has handed me over to sinners.</p><p class="line2">He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“I was living quietly until he shattered me.</p><p class="line2">He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces.</p><p class="line1">Then he set me up as his target,</p><p class="line2"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and now his archers surround me.</p><p class="line1">His arrows pierce me without mercy.</p><p class="line2">The ground is wet with my blood.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Again and again he smashes against me,</p><p class="line2">charging at me like a warrior.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I wear burlap to show my grief.</p><p class="line2">My pride lies in the dust.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>My eyes are red with weeping;</p><p class="line2">dark shadows circle my eyes.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Yet I have done no wrong,</p><p class="line2">and my prayer is pure.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“O earth, do not conceal my blood.</p><p class="line2">Let it cry out on my behalf.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Even now my witness is in heaven.</p><p class="line2">My advocate is there on high.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My friends scorn me,</p><p class="line2">but I pour out my tears to God.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I need someone to mediate between God and me,</p><p class="line2">as a person mediates between friends.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For soon I must go down that road</p><p class="line2">from which I will never return.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">16:13 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">my gall.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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