Job 16
1 And he answered Job and he said.
And Job answers and says:
2 I have heard like these [things] many [are] comforters of trouble all of you.
“I have heard many such things, 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 an end to words of wind? Or what emboldens you that you answer?
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 also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul’s stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.
5 I will strengthen you with mouth my and [the] condolence of lips my it will restrain.
I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
6 If I will speak not it will be restrained pain my and I will cease what? from me will it go.
If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease—what goes from me?
7 Nevertheless now he has made weary me you have devastated all company my.
Only, now, it has wearied me; You have desolated all my company,
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.
And You loathe me, For it has been a witness, And my failure rises up against me, It testifies in my face.
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, and He hates me, He has gnashed at me with His teeth, My adversary sharpens His eyes for me.
10 People have opened wide on me - mouth their in scorn they have struck cheeks my together on me they mass themselves!
They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have struck my cheeks, Together they set themselves against me.
11 He delivers up me God to an unjust one and on [the] hands of wicked [people] he casts me.
God shuts me up to the perverse, And turns me over to the hands 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 have been at ease, and He breaks me, And He has laid hold on my neck, And He breaks me in pieces, And He raises me to Him for a mark.
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 go around against me. He split my reins, and does not spare, He pours out my gall to the earth.
14 He breaks through me a breach on [the] face of a breach he runs on me like a warrior.
He breaks me—breach on breach, He runs on me as a mighty one.
15 Sackcloth I have sewed over skin my and I have inserted in the dust horn my.
I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have rolled 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 foul with weeping, And on my eyelids [is] death-shade.
17 On not violence [is] in hands my and prayer my [is] pure.
Not for violence in my hands, 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! And let there not be a place for my cry.
19 Also now there! [is] in the heavens witness my and witness my [is] in high places.
Also, now, behold, my witness [is] in the heavens, And my testifier in the high places.
20 [are] scoffing at Me companions my to God it has wept eye my.
My interpreter [is] my friend, My eye has dropped to God;
21 And he may argue for a man with God and a child of humankind for companion his.
And He reasons for a man with God, As a son of man for his friend.
22 For years of number they will come and a way [which] not I will return I will go.
When a few years come, Then I go [on] the path of no return.”
