1 Then Job answered and said, 2 “I have heard many such things; you are all miserable comforters. 3 Will useless words ever have an end? What is wrong with you that you answer like this? 4 I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could collect and join words together against you and shake my head at you in mockery. 5 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the quivering of my lips will bring you relief! 6 If I speak, my grief is not lessened; if I keep from speaking, how am I helped? 7 But now, God, you have made me weary; you have made all my family desolate. 8 You have made me dry up, which itself is a witness against me; the leanness of my body rises up against me, and it testifies against my face. 9 God has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me; He grinds his teeth in rage; my enemy fastens his eyes on me as he tears me apart. 10 People have gaped with open mouth at me; they have hit me reproachfully on the cheek; they have gathered together against me. 11 God hands me over to ungodly people, and throws me into the hands of wicked people. 12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Indeed, he has taken me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he has also set me up as his target. 13 His archers surround me all around; God pierces my kidneys and does not spare me; he pours out my bile on the ground. 14 He smashes through my wall again and again; he runs upon me like a warrior. 15 I have sewn sackcloth on my skin; I have thrust my horn into the ground. 16 My face is red with weeping; on my eyelids is the shadow of death 17 although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. 18 Earth, do not cover up my blood; let my cry have no resting place. 19 Even now, see, my witness is in heaven; he who vouches for me is on high. 20 My friends scoff at me, but my eye pours out tears to God. 21 I ask for that witness in heaven to argue for this man with God as a man does with his neighbor! 22 For when a few years have passed, I will go to a place from where I will not return.
Job 16 Unlocked Literal Bible
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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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