Job 16

1Then Job answered,

2“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!Cross-references: Job 6:6 · Job 6:25 · Job 11:2 · Job 13:4 · Job 19:2 · Job 26:2 · +3 more

3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?Cross-references: Job 6:26 · Job 8:2 · Job 15:2 · Job 20:3 · Job 32:3 · Matt 22:46 · +2 more

4I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,Cross-references: 2Ki 19:21 · Job 6:2 · Job 6:14 · Job 11:2 · Job 35:16 · Ps 22:7 · +11 more

5but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.Cross-references: Job 4:3 · Job 6:14 · Job 29:25 · Ps 27:14 · Prov 27:9 · Prov 27:17 · +2 more

6“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?Cross-references: Job 10:1 · Ps 77:1 · Ps 88:15

7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.Cross-references: Job 1:15 · Job 3:17 · Job 7:3 · Job 7:16 · Job 10:1 · Job 29:5 · +4 more

8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.Cross-references: Ruth 1:21 · Job 10:17 · Job 19:20 · Ps 106:15 · Ps 109:24 · Isa 10:16 · +2 more

9He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.Cross-references: Job 10:16 · Job 13:24 · Job 13:27 · Job 18:4 · Job 19:11 · Ps 35:16 · +8 more

10They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:24 · 2Chr 18:23 · Ps 22:13 · Ps 22:16 · Ps 35:15 · Ps 35:21 · +10 more

11God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.Cross-references: 1Sam 24:18 · Job 1:13 · Job 2:7 · Ps 7:14 · Ps 27:12 · Ps 31:8 · +3 more

12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.Cross-references: Job 1:2 · Job 3:26 · Job 4:10 · Job 7:12 · Job 7:20 · Job 9:17 · +9 more

13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.Cross-references: Gen 49:23 · Deut 29:20 · Job 6:4 · Job 6:10 · Job 19:27 · Job 20:25 · +6 more

14He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.Cross-references: Judg 15:8 · Job 9:17 · Ps 42:7 · Lam 3:3 · Joel 2:7

15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.Cross-references: Gen 37:34 · 1Sam 2:10 · 1Ki 21:27 · Job 30:19 · Ps 7:5 · Ps 75:5 · +2 more

16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,Cross-references: Job 17:7 · Ps 6:6 · Ps 31:9 · Ps 32:3 · Ps 69:3 · Ps 102:3 · +6 more

17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.Cross-references: Job 8:5 · Job 11:14 · Job 15:20 · Job 15:34 · Job 21:27 · Job 22:5 · +10 more

18“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.Cross-references: Gen 4:11 · Neh 4:5 · Job 27:9 · Ps 66:18 · Isa 1:15 · Isa 26:21 · +4 more

19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.Cross-references: Gen 31:50 · 1Sam 12:5 · Job 25:2 · Ps 113:5 · Rom 1:9 · Rom 9:1 · +4 more

20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,Cross-references: Job 12:4 · Job 16:4 · Job 17:2 · Ps 109:4 · Ps 142:2 · Hos 12:4 · +2 more

21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!Cross-references: Job 9:34 · Job 13:3 · Job 13:22 · Job 23:3 · Job 31:35 · Job 40:1 · +3 more

22For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.Cross-references: Job 7:9 · Job 14:5 · Job 14:10 · Job 14:14 · Eccl 12:5