Job 16
1 and to answer Job and to say
Job replied,
2 to hear: hear like/as these many to be sorry: comfort trouble all your
“I've heard all this before. You are comforters who just cause trouble!
3 end to/for word spirit: breath or what? be sick you for to answer
Will your windy speeches never cease? What's bothering you that you have to answer me?
4 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
I could talk like you do if you were in my place, stringing words together to criticize you, ridiculing you with a toss of my head.
5 to strengthen you in/at/by lip my and solace lips my to withhold
I could build you up by my mouth speaking words; the movement of my lips would ease your pain.
6 if to speak: speak not to withhold pain my and to cease what? from me to go: went
For me, if I speak it doesn't ease my pain, and if I don't speak the pain is still there.
7 surely now be weary me be desolate: destroyed all congregation my
God, you have worn me out. You have destroyed my whole family.
8 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
You have made me shrivel up, which is a witness against me; my thin body testifies against me.
9 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
He has torn me apart in his anger; in his hostility he has gnashed his teeth at me; my enemy pierces me with his fierce look.
10 to open upon me in/on/with lip their in/on/with reproach to smite jaw my unitedness upon me to fill [emph?]
People stare at me with their mouths wide open, they slap me on my cheeks to mock me, they crowd around me to attack me.
11 to shut me God to(wards) unjust one and upon hand wicked to wring me
God has handed me over to evil people; he has thrown me into their hands.
12 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
I was living in peace and he smashed me to pieces. He grabbed me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target.
13 to turn: surround upon me archer his to cleave kidney my and not to spare to pour: pour to/for land: soil gall my
His archers surround me. His arrows pierce my kidneys without mercy. He pours out my gall on the ground.
14 to break through me breach upon face of breach to run: run upon me like/as mighty man
Like a wall he breaks me down, breach upon breach, rushing at me like a warrior.
15 sackcloth to sew upon skin my and to thrust in/on/with dust horn my
I have sown sackcloth to cover my skin; my strength lies broken in the dust.
16 face my (be red *QK) from weeping and upon eyelid my shadow
My face is red from crying and dark shadows surround my eyes,
17 upon not violence in/on/with palm my and prayer my pure
although I have done nothing wrong and my prayer is pure.
18 land: soil not to cover blood my and not to be place to/for outcry my
Earth, do not cover up my blood. May my cry find no place to hide.
19 also now behold in/on/with heaven witness my and advocate my in/on/with height
Look, right now my witness is in heaven; the one who speaks for me is on high.
20 to mock me neighbor my to(wards) god to drip eye my
My friends scorn me, but my eyes pour out tears to God.
21 and to rebuke to/for great man with god and son: child man to/for neighbor his
I want my witness to speak for me with God as someone does for their friend.
22 for year number to come and way not to return: return to go: went
For in a few short years I shall go down that road from which I shall not return.
