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Job 16 Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
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Even though you will speak to me, I am not answering<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>I also might speak like you, but, oh that your souls were treated in the place of my soul, and I had tested you with words and I would shake my head at you!<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>But I would have examined you in your words, and the speaking of my lips I would not have kept from you!<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>For if I shall speak, my sorrow is not removed, and I am if silent, who is relieving me?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>Because now he troubles me and he keeps all my testimony<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>And he appointed me and I have become a witness and my lie stood against me, and I have spoken before him<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>His anger has broken me and torn me to pieces and his teeth gnashed on me. My enemies fixed their eyes on me<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>And they have opened their mouths against me with insult and they struck my cheeks together, and they have been filled with fury against me<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>He handed me over to the Evil Angel, and he handed me over to the hand of the Wicked One<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>I was silent and he struck me. He seized on my neck and shook me. He has set me up for himself as a target<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>And his arrows have increased against me, and he shot at my kidneys and showed no pity. He poured my bile on the ground!<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>He broke me breach within breach and he ran against me as upon a giant!<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Sackcloth I put on my skin and I sprinkled my head with dust<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>My face is troubled from weeping and my eyes from the shadow of death<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>Because there is no evil in my hands and my prayer is pure<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>The Earth will not cover my blood and there shall be no place for my cry<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>And now, behold, in Heaven are my witnesses, and my acquaintances in the High Place<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>My brothers and my friends, my eyes overflow to God!<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>But, oh, that a son of man might blame God, as a man his neighbor!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/16-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>For the number of his years are coming, and he goes the way without return! <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated<br>Translated by Glenn David Bauscher<br>Glenn David Bauscher<br>Lulu Publishing<br>Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing<br>3rd edition Copyright © 2019<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>