Job 16

1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. ¹ ‡ Job 13:4-5Jas 1:19Job 11:2-3Job 19:2-3Job 26:2-3Job 6:25Job 6:6Php 1:16 +13 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? ² ‡ Job 6:26Job 15:2Job 20:3Job 32:3-6Job 8:2Mat 22:46Tit 1:11Tit 2:8 4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. ‡ Psa 109:25Psa 22:7Lam 2:152Ki 19:21Jer 18:161Co 12:26Ecc 10:14Job 11:2 +95 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. ‡ Gal 6:1Isa 35:3-4Pro 27:9Job 29:25Job 4:3-4Job 6:14Pro 27:17Psa 27:14

6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? ³ ‡ Job 10:1Psa 88:15-18Psa 77:1-9 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. ‡ Job 7:3Job 1:15-19Isa 50:4Job 10:1Job 29:5-25Job 3:17Job 7:16Mic 6:13 +28 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. ‡ Job 10:17Job 19:20Psa 109:24Rut 1:21Eph 5:27Isa 10:16Isa 24:16Psa 106:15 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. ‡ Job 13:24Lam 2:16Psa 35:16Hos 6:1Job 19:11Act 7:54Job 10:16-17Job 13:27 +610 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. ‡ Psa 35:15Psa 22:13Isa 50:6Lam 3:30Act 23:2Mic 5:1Psa 22:16-171Ki 22:24 +811 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. ⁴ ‡ Psa 27:12Psa 31:8Psa 7:141Sa 24:182Co 12:7Jhn 19:16Job 1:13-19Job 2:7 +112 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. ‡ Job 7:20Lam 3:11-12Lam 3:4Job 9:17Psa 44:19Ezk 29:7Job 15:26Job 29:18-19 +713 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. ‡ Job 20:25Job 6:4Lam 2:11Deu 29:20Ezk 5:11Gen 49:23Job 19:27Job 6:10 +414 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. ‡ Jdg 15:8Job 9:17Jol 2:7Lam 3:3-5Psa 42:7 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. ‡ Gen 37:34Psa 7:51Ki 21:27Isa 22:12Psa 75:51Sa 2:10Job 30:19Psa 75:10 16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; ‡ Lam 1:16Mrk 14:34Psa 102:3-5Isa 52:14Job 17:7Jon 2:1-10Psa 102:9Psa 31:9 +4

17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. ‡ Pro 15:8Psa 66:18-19Job 27:6-7Job 8:5-6Isa 59:6Job 11:14Job 15:20Job 15:34 +818 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. ‡ Ezk 24:7Isa 26:21Gen 4:11Psa 66:18-19Isa 1:15Isa 58:9-10Jas 4:3-4Jer 22:29 +219 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. ⁵ ‡ Rom 1:91Th 2:10Gen 31:501Sa 12:51Th 2:52Co 1:232Co 11:31Job 25:2 +220 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. ⁶ ‡ Heb 5:7Psa 142:2Job 12:4-5Job 16:4Job 17:2Luk 6:11-12Psa 109:4Hos 12:4-5 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! ⁷ ‡ Ecc 6:10Isa 45:9Rom 9:20Job 13:22Job 13:3Job 23:3-7Job 31:35Job 40:1-5 +122 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. ⁸ ‡ Job 14:10Job 14:14Job 14:5Job 7:9-10Ecc 12:5