< Job 16 >
1 and to answer Job and to say
And 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: grievous comforters are ye all.
3 end to/for word spirit: breath or what? be sick you for to answer
Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
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: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together 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 solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].
6 if to speak: speak not to withhold pain my and to cease what? from me to go: went
If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
7 surely now be weary me be desolate: destroyed all congregation my
But now he hath made me weary; ...thou hast made desolate 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
Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness 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
His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at 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 gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.
11 to shut me God to(wards) unjust one and upon hand wicked to wring me
God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled 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 rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and 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 arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth 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 breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.
15 sackcloth to sew upon skin my and to thrust in/on/with dust horn my
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled 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 on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!
19 also now behold in/on/with heaven witness my and advocate my in/on/with height
Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.
20 to mock me neighbor my to(wards) god to drip eye my
My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
21 and to rebuke to/for great man with god and son: child man to/for neighbor his
Oh that there were arbitration for a man with God, as a son of man for his friend!
22 for year number to come and way not to return: return to go: went
For years [few] in number shall pass, — and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.