Job 16
1 Then Job, answering, said:
Bvt Iob answered, and said,
2 I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.
I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3 Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?
Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?
4 I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul. I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.
I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,
5 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.
But I woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.
6 But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me.
Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?
7 But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.
But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,
8 My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.
And hast made me full of wrinkles which is a witnesse thereof, and my leannes ryseth vp in me, testifying the same in my face.
9 He has gathered together his fury towards me, and, threatening me, he has roared against me with his teeth; my enemy has beheld me with terrible eyes.
His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.
10 They have opened their mouths against me, and, reproaching me, they have struck me on the cheek; they are nourished by my sufferings.
They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.
11 God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.
God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.
12 I, who once was wealthy, am now crushed. He has grabbed me by my neck; he has broken me and has placed me before him as a sign.
I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.
13 He has surrounded me with his lances. He has severely wounded my lower back, he has not been lenient, and he has poured out my organs upon the earth.
His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, and powreth my gall vpon the ground.
14 He has cut me with wound after wound. He has rushed upon me like a giant.
He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.
15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have covered my body with ashes.
I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.
16 My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.
My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,
17 These things I have endured without iniquity in my hand, while I held pure prayers before God.
Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure.
18 O earth, do not conceal my blood, nor let my outcry find a hiding place in you.
O earth, couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no place.
19 For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.
For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.
20 My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.
My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
21 And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant!
Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
22 For behold, a few years pass by, and I am walking a path by which I will not return.
For the yeeres accounted come, and I shall go the way, whence I shall not returne.
