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Job 16
Septuagint (LXX2012) 16 compared with World English Bible 16
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3What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder you from answering?
3“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
4I also will speak as you⌃ [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead,
4Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
5then would I insult you with words , and I would shake my head at you.
5I 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,
6And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips .
6but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
7For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?
7“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
8But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and you have laid hold of me .
8But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
9My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.
9You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
10In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.
10He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
11He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has struck me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.
11They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
12For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.
12God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
13When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.
13I 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.
14They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground.
14His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
15They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might.
15He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.
16They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.
16I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
17My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.
17My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
18Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
19Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place .
19“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
20And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
20Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
21Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let my eye weep before him.
21My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
22Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbor!
22that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
23But my years are numbered and [their end] come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.
23For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.