nkjv - Job:16-17

nkjv@Job:16:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

nkjv@Job:16:2 @ "I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!

nkjv@Job:16:3 @ Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

nkjv@Job:16:4 @ I also could speak as you do, If your soul were in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you, And shake my head at you;

nkjv@Job:16:5 @ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.

nkjv@Job:16:6 @ "Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased?

nkjv@Job:16:7 @ But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company.

nkjv@Job:16:8 @ You have shriveled me up, And it is a witness against me; My leanness rises up against me And bears witness to my face.

nkjv@Job:16:9 @ He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; My adversary sharpens His gaze on me.

nkjv@Job:16:10 @ They gape at me with their mouth, They strike me reproachfully on the cheek, They gather together against me.

nkjv@Job:16:11 @ God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.

nkjv@Job:16:12 @ I was at ease, but He has shattered me; He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces; He has set me up for His target,

nkjv@Job:16:13 @ His archers surround me. He pierces my heart and does not pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.

nkjv@Job:16:14 @ He breaks me with wound upon wound; He runs at me like a warrior.

nkjv@Job:16:15 @ "I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, And laid my head in the dust.

nkjv@Job:16:16 @ My face is flushed from weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

nkjv@Job:16:17 @ Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

nkjv@Job:16:18 @ "O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no resting place!

nkjv@Job:16:19 @ Surely even now my witness is in heaven, And my evidence is on high.

nkjv@Job:16:20 @ My friends scorn me; My eyes pour out tears to God.

nkjv@Job:16:21 @ Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor!

nkjv@Job:16:22 @ For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return.

nkjv@Job:17:1 @ "My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.

nkjv@Job:17:2 @ Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?

nkjv@Job:17:3 @ "Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will shake hands with me?

nkjv@Job:17:4 @ For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.

nkjv@Job:17:5 @ He who speaks flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

nkjv@Job:17:6 @ "But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit.

nkjv@Job:17:7 @ My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows.

nkjv@Job:17:8 @ Upright men are astonished at this, And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.

nkjv@Job:17:9 @ Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.

nkjv@Job:17:10 @ "But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not find one wise man among you.

nkjv@Job:17:11 @ My days are past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

nkjv@Job:17:12 @ They change the night into day; "The light is near,' they say, in the face of darkness.

nkjv@Job:17:13 @ If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness,

nkjv@Job:17:14 @ If I say to corruption, "You are my father,' And to the worm, "You are my mother and my sister,'

nkjv@Job:17:15 @ Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it?

nkjv@Job:17:16 @ Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?"

nkjv@Job:18:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: