rsv Job:16-17
rsv@Job:16:1 @ Then Job answered:
rsv@Job:16:2 @ "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
rsv@Job:16:3 @ Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
rsv@Job:16:4 @ I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
rsv@Job:16:5 @ I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
rsv@Job:16:6 @ "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
rsv@Job:16:7 @ Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
rsv@Job:16:8 @ And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.
rsv@Job:16:9 @ He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
rsv@Job:16:10 @ Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me.
rsv@Job:16:11 @ God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
rsv@Job:16:12 @ I was at ease, and he broke me asunder; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target,
rsv@Job:16:13 @ his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
rsv@Job:16:14 @ He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
rsv@Job:16:15 @ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.
rsv@Job:16:16 @ My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness;
rsv@Job:16:17 @ although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
rsv@Job:16:18 @ "O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
rsv@Job:16:19 @ Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.
rsv@Job:16:20 @ My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
rsv@Job:16:21 @ that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.
rsv@Job:16:22 @ For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
rsv@Job:17:1 @ My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
rsv@Job:17:2 @ Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
rsv@Job:17:3 @ "Lay down a pledge for me with thyself; who is there that will give surety for me?
rsv@Job:17:4 @ Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding, therefore thou wilt not let them triumph.
rsv@Job:17:5 @ He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail.
rsv@Job:17:6 @ "He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
rsv@Job:17:7 @ My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
rsv@Job:17:8 @ Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
rsv@Job:17:9 @ Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
rsv@Job:17:10 @ But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
rsv@Job:17:11 @ My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
rsv@Job:17:12 @ They make night into day; `he light,' they say, "is near to the darkness.'
rsv@Job:17:13 @ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
rsv@Job:17:14 @ if I say to the pit, `You are my father,' and to the worm, `My mother,' or `My sister,'
rsv@Job:17:15 @ where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
rsv@Job:17:16 @ Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
rsv@Job:18:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: