1 And Job made answer and said, 2 Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble. 3 May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them? 4 It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you: 5 I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips. 6 If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me? 7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble. 8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face. 9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes; 10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me. 11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers. 12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. 14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war. 15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust. 16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark; 17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean. 18 O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place! 19 Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high. 20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping, 21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour. 22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
Job 16 Bible in Basic English
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Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 13:4–5; James 1:19; Psalm 69:26; Philippians 1:16; Job 6:6
- 3 Job 6:26; Job 15:2; Job 32:3–6; Titus 2:8; Titus 1:11
- 4 Psalm 109:25; Psalm 22:7; Lamentations 2:15; 2 Kings 19:21; Jeremiah 18:16
- 5 Proverbs 27:9; Isaiah 35:3–4; Galatians 6:1; Proverbs 27:17; Job 6:14
- 6 Job 10:1; Psalm 88:15–18; Psalm 77:1–9
- 7 Job 7:3; Job 1:15–19; Proverbs 3:11–12; Micah 6:13; Job 3:17
- 8 Job 10:17; Job 19:20; Ruth 1:21; Psalm 109:24; Psalm 106:15
- 9 Psalm 35:16; Job 13:24; Lamentations 2:16; Hosea 6:1; Job 19:11
- 10 Psalm 35:15; Psalm 22:13; Isaiah 50:6; Lamentations 3:30; Micah 5:1
- 11 Psalm 27:12; Psalm 7:14; Psalm 31:8; Job 2:7; Job 1:13–19
- 12 Job 7:20; Lamentations 3:11–12; Lamentations 3:4; Job 9:17; Psalm 44:19
- 13 Job 20:25; Job 6:4; Lamentations 2:11; Romans 8:32; Genesis 49:23
- 14 Job 9:17; Joel 2:7; Judges 15:8; Lamentations 3:3–5; Psalm 42:7
- 15 Genesis 37:34; Psalm 7:5; 1 Kings 21:27; Isaiah 22:12; Psalm 75:5
- 16 Lamentations 1:16; Mark 14:34; Psalm 102:3–5; Job 17:7; Psalm 32:3
- 17 Proverbs 15:8; Psalm 66:18–19; Job 27:6–7; Job 8:5–6; Psalm 7:3–5
- 18 Isaiah 26:21; Ezekiel 24:7; Psalm 66:18–19; Genesis 4:11; Nehemiah 4:5
- 19 Romans 1:9; Genesis 31:50; 1 Thessalonians 2:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; Romans 9:1
- 20 Hebrews 5:7; Psalm 142:2; Job 17:2; Job 12:4–5; Psalm 109:4
- 21 Ecclesiastes 6:10; Isaiah 45:9; Romans 9:20; Job 40:1–5; Job 31:35
- 22 Job 14:10; Job 14:14; Job 7:9–10; Job 14:5; Ecclesiastes 12:5
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