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Job 16
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
2Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
2I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
3May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
3Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
4It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
4I 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;
5I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
5[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].
6If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
6If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
7But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
7But now he hath made me weary; ...thou hast made desolate all my family;
8It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
8Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.
9I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
9His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.
10Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.
10They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.
11God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
11God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.
12I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
12I 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.
13His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
13His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.
15I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.
16My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
17Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!
18O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!
19Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.
19Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.
20My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
20My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears untoGod.