{"book":"Job","slug":"job","ch":16,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Job","prev":"job/15","next":"job/17","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"Then Job answered:","f":[],"h":"Job Decries His Comforters","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"“ I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"“ I have heard many things like these;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"miserable comforters are you all."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":3,"t":"Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Is there no end to your long-winded speeches?"},{"style":"indent2","t":"What provokes you to continue testifying?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":4,"t":"I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I could also speak like you"},{"style":"indent2","t":"if you were in my place;"},{"style":"indent1","t":"I could heap up words against you"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and shake my head at you."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":5,"t":"But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"But I would encourage you with my mouth,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and the consolation of my lips would bring relief."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":6,"t":"Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and if I hold back, how will it go away?"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":7,"t":"Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Surely He has now exhausted me;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"You have devastated all my family."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":8,"t":"You have bound me, [and] it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"You have bound me, [and] it has become a witness;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"my frailty rises up and testifies against me."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":9,"t":"His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"His anger has torn me and opposed me;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"He gnashes His teeth at me."},{"style":"indent2","t":"My adversary pierces me with His eyes."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":10,"t":"They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"They open their mouths against me"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and strike my cheeks with contempt;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they join together against me."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":11,"t":"God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"God has delivered me to unjust men;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":12,"t":"I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I was at ease, but He shattered me;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"He seized me by the neck and crushed me."},{"style":"indent1","t":"He has set me up as His target;"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":13,"t":"His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent2","t":"His archers surround me."},{"style":"indent1","t":"He pierces my kidneys without mercy"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and spills my gall on the ground."}],"style":"indent2"},{"v":14,"t":"He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"He breaks me with wound upon wound;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"He rushes me like a mighty warrior."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":15,"t":"I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"I have buried my horn in the dust."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":16,"t":"My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"My face is red with weeping,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and deep shadows ring my eyes;"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":17,"t":"yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"yet my hands are free of violence"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and my prayer is pure."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":18,"t":"O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"O earth, do not cover my blood;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"may my cry for help never be laid to rest."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":19,"t":"Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Even now my witness is in heaven,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and my advocate is on high."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":20,"t":"My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out [tears] to God.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"My friends are my scoffers"},{"style":"indent2","t":"as my eyes pour out [tears] to God."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":21,"t":"Oh, that a man might plead with God as [he] [pleads] with his neighbor!","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Oh, that a man might plead with God"},{"style":"indent2","t":"as [he] [pleads] with his neighbor!"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":22,"t":"For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.[’’]","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"For when only a few years are past"},{"style":"indent2","t":"I will go the way of no return.[’’]"}],"style":"indent1"}]}