Job 16
1 and to answer Job and to say
Then Job answered, and said,
2 to hear: hear like/as these many to be sorry: comfort trouble all your
I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are ye all.
3 end to/for word spirit: breath or what? be sick you for to answer
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?
4 also I like/as you to speak: speak if there soul: myself your underneath: instead soul: myself my to unite upon you in/on/with speech and to shake upon you in/at/by head my
I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
5 to strengthen you in/at/by lip my and solace lips my to withhold
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.
6 if to speak: speak not to withhold pain my and to cease what? from me to go: went
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7 surely now be weary me be desolate: destroyed all congregation my
But now he has made me weary. Thou have made desolate all my company.
8 and to seize me to/for witness to be and to arise: attack in/on/with me lie my in/on/with face my to answer
And thou have laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.
9 face: anger his to tear and to hate me to grind upon me in/on/with tooth his enemy my to sharpen eye his to/for me
He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.
10 to open upon me in/on/with lip their in/on/with reproach to smite jaw my unitedness upon me to fill [emph?]
They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
11 to shut me God to(wards) unjust one and upon hand wicked to wring me
God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 at ease to be and to break me and to grasp in/on/with neck my and to shatter me and to arise: establish me to/for him to/for guardhouse
I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.
13 to turn: surround upon me archer his to cleave kidney my and not to spare to pour: pour to/for land: soil gall my
His archers encompass me round about. He splits my reins apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground.
14 to break through me breach upon face of breach to run: run upon me like/as mighty man
He breaks me with breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a giant.
15 sackcloth to sew upon skin my and to thrust in/on/with dust horn my
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.
16 face my (be red *Q(K)*) from weeping and upon eyelid my shadow
My face is red with weeping, and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,
17 upon not violence in/on/with palm my and prayer my pure
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18 land: soil not to cover blood my and not to be place to/for outcry my
O earth, do not cover thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting place.
19 also now behold in/on/with heaven witness my and advocate my in/on/with height
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who vouches for me is on high.
20 to mock me neighbor my to(wards) god to drip eye my
My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God
21 and to rebuke to/for great man with god and son: child man to/for neighbor his
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbor!
22 for year number to come and way not to return: return to go: went
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.
