Job 16

1 And he answered Job and he said.

Then Job answered:

2 I have heard like these [things] many [are] comforters of trouble all of you.

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

3 ¿ [does] an end [belong] to Words of wind or what? is it making sick you that you will answer.

Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

4 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.

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

5 I will strengthen you with mouth my and [the] condolence of lips my it will restrain.

But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

6 If I will speak not it will be restrained pain my and I will cease what? from me will it go.

Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

7 Nevertheless now he has made weary me you have devastated all company my.

Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

8 And you have seized me a witness it has become and it has risen up on me leanness my in face my it testifies.

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

9 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.

His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

10 People have opened wide on me - mouth their in scorn they have struck cheeks my together on me they mass themselves!

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

11 He delivers up me God to an unjust one and on [the] hands of wicked [people] he casts me.

God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

12 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.

I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

13 They surround me - archers his he splits open kidneys my and not he has compassion he pours out to the ground gall my.

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

14 He breaks through me a breach on [the] face of a breach he runs on me like a warrior.

He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

15 Sackcloth I have sewed over skin my and I have inserted in the dust horn my.

I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

16 Face my (they are reddened *Q(K)*) from weeping and [is] on eyelids my deep darkness.

My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

17 On not violence [is] in hands my and prayer my [is] pure.

yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

18 O earth may not you cover blood my and may not it belong a place to outcry my.

O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.

19 Also now there! [is] in the heavens witness my and witness my [is] in high places.

Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

20 [are] scoffing at Me companions my to God it has wept eye my.

My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

21 And he may argue for a man with God and a child of humankind for companion his.

Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

22 For years of number they will come and a way [which] not I will return I will go.

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.