Job 16

1 and to answer Job and to say

Job replied [to Eliphaz and the others: ]

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

“I have heard things like that before; all of you, [instead of helping me, ] are only causing me to feel more miserable.

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

Will your speeches, which are only hot air, never end [RHQ]? Eliphaz, what bothers/irritates you so much that you continue replying to me?

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

If it were you [three and not I] who were suffering, I could say the things that you are saying; I could make great speeches [to criticize/condemn you], and I could shake my head at you [to ridicule you].

5 to strengthen you in/at/by lip my and solace lips my to withhold

But, [unlike all of you, ] with what I said [MTY] I would encourage you and try to cause your pain to be less.

6 if to speak: speak not to withhold pain my and to cease what? from me to go: went

“But now, if I talk, my pain does not decrease, and if I am silent, my pain still certainly does not [RHQ] go away.

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

God has now taken away all my strength, and he has destroyed 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

He has shriveled me up, and people think that shows that I [am a sinner]. And people see that I am only skin and bones, and they think that proves that I [am guilty].

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

Because God is very angry with me and hates me, [it is as though he is a wild animal that] [MET] has gnashed his teeth at me because he is my enemy.

10 to open upon me in/on/with lip their in/on/with reproach to smite jaw my unitedness upon me to fill [emph?]

People gape/stare at me with their mouths open [to sneer at me]; they have struck me on the face/cheek to ridicule me, and they crowd around me to threaten me.

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

[It is as though] God has handed me over to ungodly people and turned me over to the wicked [DOU].

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

Previously, I was living peacefully, but he crushed me; [it is as though] he grabbed my neck and smashed me to pieces. [It is as though] [MET] he set me up like a 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

people are surrounding me [and shooting arrows at me]. His arrows pierce my kidneys and cause the bile [from my liver] to spill onto the ground, and God does not pity me at all.

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

[It is as though] [MET] I am a wall that he is breaking through; he rushes at me like [SIM] a soldier [attacking his enemies].

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

[“Because I am mourning, ] I wear pieces of rough cloth that I have sewed together, and I sit [here] in the dirt, very depressed/discouraged.

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

My face is red because I have cried very much, and there are dark circles around my eyes.

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

[All this has happened to me] even though I have not acted violently [toward anyone], and I [always] pray sincerely/honestly [to God].

18 land: soil not to cover blood my and not to be place to/for outcry my

[When I die, ] I want the ground [APO] to [act as though I had been murdered and] cry out against those who killed me, and I do not want anyone to stop me while I am demanding [that God act justly toward] me.

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

But even now, [I know that] there is someone in heaven who will testify for me, and he will say that what I have done is right.

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

My [three] friends scorn/ridicule me, but my eyes are full of tears [while I cry out] to God.

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

I pray that [the] one [who knows what I have done] would come to plead with God for me like people plead for their friends.

22 for year number to come and way not to return: return to go: went

[I say this because] within a few years [I will die]; I will walk along the [to the grave] from which I will never return.”