◄ Job 16 ►
JPS Tanakh 1917 1Then Job answered and said: 2I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are ye all. 3Shall windy words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? 4I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you. 5I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips would assuage your grief. 6Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased? 7But now He hath made me weary; Thou hast made desolate all my company. 8And Thou hast shrivelled me up, which is a witness against me; And my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face. 9He hath torn me in His wrath, and hated me; He hath gnashed upon me with His teeth; Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek scornfully; They gather themselves together against me. 11God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked. 12I was at ease, and He broke me asunder; Yea, He hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces; He hath also set me up for His mark. 13His archers compass me round about, He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant. 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust. 16My face is reddened with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; 17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. 18O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no resting-place. 19Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, And He that testifieth of me is on high. 20Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, Mine eye poureth out tears unto God; 21That He would set aright a man contending with God, As a son of man setteth aright his neighbour! 22For the years that are few are coming on, And I shall go the way whence I shall not return. JPS Tanakh 1917: THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT. A NEW TRANSLATION. Jewish Publication Society. 1917. Bible Hub