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Job 16 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Job Says Friends Are Miserable Comforters

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Then Job responded,

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“I have heard many things like these;

[fn]Miserable comforters are you all!

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“Is there no end to windy words?

Or what provokes you that you answer?

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“I too could speak like you,

If only [fn]I were in your place.

I could compose words against you

And shake my head at you.

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Or I could strengthen you with my mouth,

And the condolence of my lips could lessen your pain.

Job Says God Shattered Him

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“If I speak, my pain is not lessened,

And if I refrain, what pain leaves me?

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“But now He has exhausted me;

You have laid waste all my group of loved ones.

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“And You have shriveled me up,

[fn]It has become a witness;

And my infirmity rises up against me,

It testifies to my face.

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“His anger has torn me and [fn]hunted me down,

He has gnashed at me with His teeth;

My enemy [fn]glares at me.

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“They have gaped at me with their mouths,

They have [fn]slapped me on the cheek with contempt;

They have massed themselves against me.

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“God hands me over to criminals,

And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

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“I was at ease, but He shattered me,

And He has grasped me by my neck and shaken me to pieces;

He has also set me up as His target.

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“His arrows surround me.

He splits my kidneys open without mercy;

He pours out my bile on the ground.

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“He breaks through me with breach after breach;

He runs at me like a warrior.

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“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin,

And thrust my horn in the dust.

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“My face is flushed from weeping,

And deep darkness is on my eyelids,

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Although there is no violence in my hands,

And my prayer is pure.

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“Earth, do not cover my blood,

And may there be no resting place for my cry.

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“Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,

And my [fn]advocate is on high.

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“My friends are my scoffers;

My eye weeps to God,

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That one might plead for a man with God

As a son of man with his neighbor!

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“For when a few years are past,

I shall go the way of no return.

NASB20 Footnotes
Lit Comforters of trouble
Lit your soul were in place of my soul
I.e., Job’s condition
Lit borne a grudge against me
Lit sharpens his eyes
Lit struck
Or witness
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