“Then Job answered”
Job 16
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Chuck Smith12
KD
Keith Daniel5
WM
William MacDonald2
EM
Ed Miller2
PJ
Phil Beach Jr.1
RH
Roy Hession1
NG
Norman Grubb1
AH
Aaron Hurst1
ZP
Zac Poonen1
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Keith Malcomson1
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1Then Job answered:
“Then Job answered”
“Then Job answered”
“Then Job answered,”
“then Job answered and said,”
“Then Job answered and said”
2"I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
“I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all.”
“I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all.”
3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
“Shall vain words have an end, or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?”
4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
“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,”
5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
“but I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.”
“But I would rather to strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.”
6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
“Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged. And though I forbear, what am I eased?”
7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
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8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
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9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
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10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
“They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They have gathered themselves together against me.”
11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
“God hath delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.”
“God hath delivered me into the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.”
“God hands me over to ruffians. He tosses me into the hands of the wicked.”
“God hands me over to the ruffians, tosses me into the hands of the wicked.”
12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
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13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
“His arrows surround me. Without mercy, He splits my kidneys open. He pours my gall out on the ground.”
14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
“He breaks me with a branch upon branch. He runs upon me like a”
15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
“I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.”
16My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
“my face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,”
“My face is foul with weeping and my eyelids is the shadow of death.”
17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
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18O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
“O earth, cover not thou my blood and let my cry have no place.”
19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
“Also now behold, my witness is in heaven and my record is on high.".”
20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
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21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
“Oh, that one might plead for a man with God. As a man pleads for his neighbor.”
“that one might plead for a man with God as a man pleadeth for his neighbor.”
22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
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