Job 16 · Clearspring

Job Decries His Comforters

¹Then Job answered and said,+ ²I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.+ ³Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?+ ⁴I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.+ ⁵But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.+ ⁶Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?+ ⁷But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.+ ⁸And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.+ ⁹He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.+ ¹⁰They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.+ ¹¹God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.+ ¹²I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.+ ¹³His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.+ ¹⁴He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.+ ¹⁵I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.+ ¹⁶My face is foul with weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of death;+ ¹⁷Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.+ ¹⁸O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.+ ¹⁹Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.+ ²⁰My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.+ ²¹Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!+ ²²When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.+

Job Decries His Comforters

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