Job 16 (NET)

Job 16:1¹Then Job replied:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:2²“I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:3³Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:4⁴I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:5⁵But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:6⁶“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking, how much of it goes away?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:7⁷Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:8⁸You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:9⁹His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:10¹⁰People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:11¹¹God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:12¹²I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:13¹³his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:14¹⁴He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:15¹⁵I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:16¹⁶my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:17¹⁷although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:18¹⁸“O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:19¹⁹Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:20²⁰My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:21²¹and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 16:22²²For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s