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Job 16 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:1 - Then Job answered and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:2 - I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:3 - Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:4 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:5 - But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

Job Says God Shattered Him

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:6 - Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:7 - But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:8 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:9 - He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:10 - They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:11 - God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:12 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:13 - His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:14 - He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:15 - I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16 - My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:17 - Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:18 - O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:19 - Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:20 - My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:21 - O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:22 - When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
KJV

The Authorized Version or King James Version (KJV), 1611, 1769.
Outside of the United Kingdom, the KJV is in the public domain. Within the United Kingdom, the rights to the KJV are vested in the Crown.

For more information on this translation, see the KJV Preface.

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Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

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by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
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