<TITLE>Job 16</TITLE><BR>Job 16<BR>1 Then Job answered and said,<BR>2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.<BR>3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?<BR>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.<BR>5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.<BR>6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?<BR>7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.<BR>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.<BR>9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.<BR>10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.<BR>11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.<BR>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.<BR>13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.<BR>14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.<BR>15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.<BR>16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;<BR>17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.<BR>18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.<BR>19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.<BR>20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.<BR>21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!<BR>22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.<BR><BR><BR>