< Job 16 >

1 And Job answered and said,
And he answered Job and he said.
2 I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
I have heard like these [things] many [are] comforters of trouble all of you.
3 Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
¿ [does] an end [belong] to Words of wind or what? is it making sick you that you will answer.
4 I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
Also - I like you I will speak if there [were] self your in place of self my I will make join on you words and I will shake on you with head my.
5 [But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].
I will strengthen you with mouth my and [the] condolence of lips my it will restrain.
6 If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
If I will speak not it will be restrained pain my and I will cease what? from me will it go.
7 But now he hath made me weary; ...thou hast made desolate all my family;
Nevertheless now he has made weary me you have devastated all company my.
8 Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.
And you have seized me a witness it has become and it has risen up on me leanness my in face my it testifies.
9 His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.
Anger his it has torn [me] - and it has assailed me he has gnashed towards me with teeth his opponent my - he sharpens eyes his to me.
10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.
People have opened wide on me - mouth their in scorn they have struck cheeks my together on me they mass themselves!
11 God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.
He delivers up me God to an unjust one and on [the] hands of wicked [people] he casts me.
12 I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
At ease I was - and he smashed me and he took hold on neck my and he shattered me and he set up me of him to a target.
13 His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
They surround me - archers his he splits open kidneys my and not he has compassion he pours out to the ground gall my.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.
He breaks through me a breach on [the] face of a breach he runs on me like a warrior.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.
Sackcloth I have sewed over skin my and I have inserted in the dust horn my.
16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Face my (they are reddened *Q(K)*) from weeping and [is] on eyelids my deep darkness.
17 Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
On not violence [is] in hands my and prayer my [is] pure.
18 O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!
O earth may not you cover blood my and may not it belong a place to outcry my.
19 Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.
Also now there! [is] in the heavens witness my and witness my [is] in high places.
20 My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
[are] scoffing at Me companions my to God it has wept eye my.
21 Oh that there were arbitration for a man with God, as a son of man for his friend!
And he may argue for a man with God and a child of humankind for companion his.
22 For years [few] in number shall pass, — and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
For years of number they will come and a way [which] not I will return I will go.

< Job 16 >