Job 16

1 Then Job answered,

and to answer Job and to say

2 “I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

to hear: hear like/as these many to be sorry: comfort trouble all your

3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

end to/for word spirit: breath or what? be sick you for to answer

4 I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

also I like/as you to speak: speak if there soul: myself your underneath: instead soul: myself my to unite upon you in/on/with speech and to shake upon you in/at/by head my

5 but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

to strengthen you in/at/by lip my and solace lips my to withhold

6 “Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

if to speak: speak not to withhold pain my and to cease what? from me to go: went

7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.

surely now be weary me be desolate: destroyed all congregation my

8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

and to seize me to/for witness to be and to arise: attack in/on/with me lie my in/on/with face my to answer

9 He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

face: anger his to tear and to hate me to grind upon me in/on/with tooth his enemy my to sharpen eye his to/for me

10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

to open upon me in/on/with lip their in/on/with reproach to smite jaw my unitedness upon me to fill [emph?]

11 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

to shut me God to(wards) unjust one and upon hand wicked to wring me

12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

at ease to be and to break me and to grasp in/on/with neck my and to shatter me and to arise: establish me to/for him to/for guardhouse

13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.

to turn: surround upon me archer his to cleave kidney my and not to spare to pour: pour to/for land: soil gall my

14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.

to break through me breach upon face of breach to run: run upon me like/as mighty man

15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

sackcloth to sew upon skin my and to thrust in/on/with dust horn my

16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,

face my (be red *QK) from weeping and upon eyelid my shadow

17 although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

upon not violence in/on/with palm my and prayer my pure

18 “Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

land: soil not to cover blood my and not to be place to/for outcry my

19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

also now behold in/on/with heaven witness my and advocate my in/on/with height

20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

to mock me neighbor my to(wards) god to drip eye my

21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

and to rebuke to/for great man with god and son: child man to/for neighbor his

22 For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

for year number to come and way not to return: return to go: went