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 such things. You are all miserable comforters.

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

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes 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 could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, 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. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

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 subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

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

But now he has worn me out. You have laid waste 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

You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. 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 on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on 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. They have struck me on 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 ungodly, 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. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for 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 splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out 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 breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

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 thrust 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. Deep darkness 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

"Earth, do not cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

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

Even now, look, my witness is in heaven. 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 eyes pour 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, 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 have come, I shall go the way from where I shall not return.