1 And Job answereth and saith: — YLT — Job 16:1
2 I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters [are] ye all. YLT — Job 16:2
3 Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest? YLT — Job 16:3
4 I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head. YLT — Job 16:4
5 I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing. YLT — Job 16:5
6 If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease — what goeth from me? YLT — Job 16:6
7 Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company, YLT — Job 16:7
8 And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth. YLT — Job 16:8
9 His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me. YLT — Job 16:9
10 They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves. YLT — Job 16:10
11 God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over. YLT — Job 16:11
12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark. YLT — Job 16:12
13 Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall. YLT — Job 16:13
14 He breaketh me — breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one. YLT — Job 16:14
15 Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn. YLT — Job 16:15
16 My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids [is] death-shade. YLT — Job 16:16
17 Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer [is] pure. YLT — Job 16:17
18 O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry. YLT — Job 16:18
19 Also, now, lo, in the heavens [is] my witness, And my testifier in the high places. YLT — Job 16:19
20 My interpreter [is] my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped: YLT — Job 16:20
21 And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend. YLT — Job 16:21
22 When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go. YLT — Job 16:22