Job:16-17

asv@Job:16:1 @Then Job answered and said,

asv@Job:16:2 @I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.

asv@Job:16:3 @Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

asv@Job:16:4 @I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.

asv@Job:16:5 @But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.

asv@Job:16:6 @Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

asv@Job:16:7 @But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.

asv@Job:16:8 @And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

asv@Job:16:9 @He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

asv@Job:16:10 @They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

asv@Job:16:11 @God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.

asv@Job:16:12 @I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

asv@Job:16:13 @His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

asv@Job:16:14 @He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

asv@Job:16:15 @I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

asv@Job:16:16 @My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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

asv@Job:16:18 @O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no resting -place.

asv@Job:16:19 @Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high.

asv@Job:16:20 @My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

asv@Job:16:21 @That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!

asv@Job:16:22 @For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

asv@Job:17:1 @My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me.

asv@Job:17:2 @Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

asv@Job:17:3 @Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?

asv@Job:17:4 @For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

asv@Job:17:5 @He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

asv@Job:17:6 @But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

asv@Job:17:7 @Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

asv@Job:17:8 @Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

asv@Job:17:9 @Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.

asv@Job:17:10 @But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.

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

asv@Job:17:12 @They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.

asv@Job:17:13 @If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

asv@Job:17:14 @If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;

asv@Job:17:15 @Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

asv@Job:17:16 @It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

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

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