LEB JOB chapter 16

Job’s Fifth Speech

2 things like these; all of you are[fn]
3 Is there a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer?
4 [fn] also could talk as you, if[fn]
I could join against you with words,
and I could shake at you with my head.
5 [fn] encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would[fn] ease the pain.
6  and if I cease, how much will leave me?
7  you[fn] have devastated all my company.
8 [fn] you shriveled me up;[fn] it became a witness.
And my leanness has risen up against me;
it testifies to my face.
9  he gnashed at me with his teeth.
My foe sharpens his eyes against me.
10  they struck my cheeks with disgrace;
they have massed themselves together against me.
11  and he casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 [fn] he broke me in two, and he seized me by my neck;
then[fn] he shattered me
and set me up as a target for him.
13  he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion;
he pours out my gall on the ground.
14 [fn] he rushes at me like a warrior.
15  and I have inserted[fn] in the dust.
16  and deep shadows are on my eyelids,
17 [fn] violence is not on my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18  and let there be no place[fn] for my cry for help.
19 is in the heavens, and he who vouches for me is in the heights.
20  my eye pours out tears to God,
21 [fn] for a mortal with God, and as[fn] for his friend.
22 after[fn] have come, then[fn] I will go the way from which I will not return.

?:? Literally “comforters of trouble”

?:? Emphatic personal pronoun;

?:? Literally “there is your soul in place of my soul”

?:? Or “would”

?:? Or “should”

?:? Singular

?:? Hebrew “And”

?:? Or “you have seized me”

?:? Hebrew “and”

?:? Literally “breach upon the faces of breach”

?:? Literally “my horn”

?:? Literally “upon,” or “because”

?:? Or “do not let it become a place”

?:? Or “but may someone argue”

?:? Literally “a son of man”

?:? Literally “years of number”

?:? Hebrew “and”

LEB JOB Chapter 16