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Job 16

About Job Job wrestles with why the righteous suffer, through Job's losses, his friends' arguments and God's answer.

Then Job answered and said,SelectedJob 16:1Ask

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.SelectedJob 16:2Ask

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?SelectedJob 16:3Ask

I 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.SelectedJob 16:4Ask

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.SelectedJob 16:5Ask

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?SelectedJob 16:6Ask

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.SelectedJob 16:7Ask

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.SelectedJob 16:8Ask

He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.SelectedJob 16:9Ask

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.SelectedJob 16:10Ask

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.SelectedJob 16:11Ask

I 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.SelectedJob 16:12Ask

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.SelectedJob 16:13Ask

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.SelectedJob 16:14Ask

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.SelectedJob 16:15Ask

My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;SelectedJob 16:16Ask

Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.SelectedJob 16:17Ask

O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.SelectedJob 16:18Ask

Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.SelectedJob 16:19Ask

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.SelectedJob 16:20Ask

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!SelectedJob 16:21Ask

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.SelectedJob 16:22Ask

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