< Job 16 >

1 and to answer Job and to say
Then Job answered:
2 to hear: hear like/as these many to be sorry: comfort trouble all your
“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
3 end to/for word spirit: breath or what? be sick you for to answer
Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
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 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 to strengthen you in/at/by lip my and solace lips my to withhold
But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
6 if to speak: speak not to withhold pain my and to cease what? from me to go: went
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
7 surely now be weary me be desolate: destroyed all congregation my
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
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
You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
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
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
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 open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
11 to shut me God to(wards) unjust one and upon hand wicked to wring me
God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches 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, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
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 surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on 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 wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
15 sackcloth to sew upon skin my and to thrust in/on/with dust horn my
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried 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 deep shadows ring my eyes;
17 upon not violence in/on/with palm my and prayer my pure
yet my hands are free of violence 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 my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
19 also now behold in/on/with heaven witness my and advocate my in/on/with height
Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
20 to mock me neighbor my to(wards) god to drip eye my
My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
21 and to rebuke to/for great man with god and son: child man to/for neighbor his
Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
22 for year number to come and way not to return: return to go: went
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

< Job 16 >