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OEB JOB Chapter 16

JOB 16 ©

16Then Job answered and said:

2Many things such as these have I heard:

Ye are wearisome comforters – all of you.

3Shall windy words have an end?

What is it that provokes thee to answer?

4I, too, could speak like you,

Were your soul in my soul’s stead.

I could weave words together about you,

And shake my head at you.

5I could strengthen you with my mouth,

And encourage you with lip-comfort.

6To speak is no check to my pain;

To keep silence – that easeth me nothing.

7But now He hath wearied and dazed me;

My misery seizes upon me.

8It rises for witness against me;

My grief testifies to my face.

9In His wrath He hath flung me down torn;

He hath gnashed upon me with His teeth.

My foes whet their eyes upon me;

10With open mouth they gape.

They insult me with blows on the cheek,

Coming on in their masses against me.

11To knaves God has given me up;

Into wicked hands He has hurled me.

12I was happy, when He took and shattered me;

Grasped my neck, and then dashed me in pieces.

He set me up for His target;

13On all sides His archers beset me.

He cleaves through my reins unrelenting;

He pours out my gall on the ground.

14One breach after another He makes on me,

Rushing at me like a warrior.

15Sackcloth I sewed on my skin,

And my horn I have laid in the dust.

16My face is red with weeping,

And over mine eye-lids is darkness–

17Though wrong there is none in my hands,

And though my prayer be pure.

18O earth! cover not my blood;

No rest let there be to my crying.

19Behold, in heaven is my Witness,

And I have a Sponsor on high.

20My friends pour their scorn upon me,

But my tear-stained eyes look unto God,

21That He plead for a man with God,

And for son of man with his Friend.

22For when but a few years come,

I shall go whence I shall not return.

JOB 16 ©

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