en_cepher - Job 16 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ THEN Iyov answered and said,

² I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

³ Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?

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 my head at you.

⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

⁷ But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.

⁸ And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

⁹ He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

¹⁰ They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

¹¹ El has delivered me to the perverse, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

¹² I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

¹³ His archers compass me round about, he cleaves my mind asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

¹⁴ He breaks me with breach upon breach, he runs upon me like a giant.

¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

¹⁷ Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.

¹⁸ O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no place.

¹⁹ Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

²⁰ My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto Eloah.

²¹ O that one might plead for a man with Eloah, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

²² When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.