Job 16

1 And he answered Job and he said.

Job replied [to Eliphaz and the others: ]

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

“I have heard things like that before; all of you, [instead of helping me, ] are only causing me to feel more miserable.

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

Will your speeches, which are only hot air, never end [RHQ]? Eliphaz, what bothers/irritates you so much that you continue replying to me?

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.

If it were you [three and not I] who were suffering, I could say the things that you are saying; I could make great speeches [to criticize/condemn you], and I could shake my head at you [to ridicule you].

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

But, [unlike all of you, ] with what I said [MTY] I would encourage you and try to cause your pain to be less.

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

“But now, if I talk, my pain does not decrease, and if I am silent, my pain still certainly does not [RHQ] go away.

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

God has now taken away all my strength, and he has destroyed 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.

He has shriveled me up, and people think that shows that I [am a sinner]. And people see that I am only skin and bones, and they think that proves that I [am guilty].

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.

Because God is very angry with me and hates me, [it is as though he is a wild animal that] [MET] has gnashed his teeth at me because he is my enemy.

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

People gape/stare at me with their mouths open [to sneer at me]; they have struck me on the face/cheek to ridicule me, and they crowd around me to threaten me.

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

[It is as though] God has handed me over to ungodly people and turned me over to the wicked [DOU].

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.

Previously, I was living peacefully, but he crushed me; [it is as though] he grabbed my neck and smashed me to pieces. [It is as though] [MET] he set me up like a 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.

people are surrounding me [and shooting arrows at me]. His arrows pierce my kidneys and cause the bile [from my liver] to spill onto the ground, and God does not pity me at all.

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

[It is as though] [MET] I am a wall that he is breaking through; he rushes at me like [SIM] a soldier [attacking his enemies].

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

[“Because I am mourning, ] I wear pieces of rough cloth that I have sewed together, and I sit [here] in the dirt, very depressed/discouraged.

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

My face is red because I have cried very much, and there are dark circles around my eyes.

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

[All this has happened to me] even though I have not acted violently [toward anyone], and I [always] pray sincerely/honestly [to God].

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

[When I die, ] I want the ground [APO] to [act as though I had been murdered and] cry out against those who killed me, and I do not want anyone to stop me while I am demanding [that God act justly toward] me.

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

But even now, [I know that] there is someone in heaven who will testify for me, and he will say that what I have done is right.

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

My [three] friends scorn/ridicule me, but my eyes are full of tears [while I cry out] to God.

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

I pray that [the] one [who knows what I have done] would come to plead with God for me like people plead for their friends.

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

[I say this because] within a few years [I will die]; I will walk along the [to the grave] from which I will never return.”