Job 16

1 and to answer Job and to say

And Job answers and says:

2 to hear: hear like/as these many to be sorry: comfort trouble all your

“I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters [are] you all.

3 end to/for word spirit: breath or what? be sick you for to answer

Is there an end to words of wind? Or what emboldens you that you 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, 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 to strengthen you in/at/by lip my and solace lips my to withhold

I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

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 restrained, And I cease—what goes from me?

7 surely now be weary me be desolate: destroyed all congregation my

Only, now, it has wearied me; You have desolated 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 You loathe me, For it has been a witness, And my failure rises up against me, It testifies in 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 has torn, and He hates me, He has gnashed at me with His teeth, My adversary sharpens His eyes for 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 on me with their mouth, In reproach they have struck my cheeks, Together they set themselves against me.

11 to shut me God to(wards) unjust one and upon hand wicked to wring me

God shuts me up to the perverse, And turns me over to 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 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 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 go around against me. He split my reins, and does not spare, He pours out my gall to the earth.

14 to break through me breach upon face of breach to run: run upon me like/as mighty man

He breaks me—breach on breach, He runs on me as a mighty one.

15 sackcloth to sew upon skin my and to thrust in/on/with dust horn my

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have rolled my horn in the dust.

16 face my (be red *Q(K)*) from weeping and upon eyelid my shadow

My face is foul with weeping, And on my eyelids [is] death-shade.

17 upon not violence in/on/with palm my and prayer my pure

Not for 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 my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.

19 also now behold in/on/with heaven witness my and advocate my in/on/with height

Also, now, behold, my witness [is] in the heavens, And my testifier in the high places.

20 to mock me neighbor my to(wards) god to drip eye my

My interpreter [is] my friend, My eye has dropped to God;

21 and to rebuke to/for great man with god and son: child man to/for neighbor his

And He reasons 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

When a few years come, Then I go [on] the path of no return.”