nsb - Job:16

nsb@Job:16:1 @ JOB ANSWERED:

nsb@Job:16:2 @ »I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

nsb@Job:16:3 @ »Is there no limit to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

nsb@Job:16:4 @ »I too could speak like you, if I were in your place. I could compose words against you. And I would shake my head at you.

nsb@Job:16:5 @ »I could strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve your pain.

nsb@Job:16:6 @ »If I speak, my pain is not lessened. If I hold back how am I eased?

nsb@Job:16:7 @ »He has exhausted me. You have lain waste all my company.

nsb@Job:16:8 @ »You have shriveled me up. It has become a witness. And my leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

nsb@Job:16:9 @ »His anger has torn me and hunted me down. He has gnashed at me with his teeth. My adversary glares at me.

nsb@Job:16:10 @ »They have gaped at me with their mouth. They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt. They have massed themselves against me.

nsb@Job:16:11 @ »God hands me over to ruffians. He tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

nsb@Job:16:12 @ »I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target.

nsb@Job:16:13 @ »His arrows surround me. Without mercy he splits my kidneys open. He pours out my gall on the ground.

nsb@Job:16:14 @ »He breaks through me with breach after breach. He runs at me like a warrior.

nsb@Job:16:15 @ »I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn in the dust.

nsb@Job:16:16 @ »My face is flushed from weeping. The shadow of death is on my eyelids.

nsb@Job:16:17 @ »There is no violence in my hands. My prayer is pure.

nsb@Job:16:18 @ »O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no resting place.

nsb@Job:16:19 @ »Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

nsb@Job:16:20 @ My friends are my scoffers. My eye weeps to God.

nsb@Job:16:21 @ »O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!

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