Job 16

¹Then Job answered and said,

²I have heard many such things:

³Shall vain words have an end?

⁴I also could speak as ye do;

⁵But I would strengthen you with my mouth,

⁶Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged;

⁷But now he hath made me weary:

⁸And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me:

⁹He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me;

¹⁰They have gaped upon me with their mouth;

¹¹God delivereth me to the ungodly,

¹²I was at ease, and he brake me asunder;

¹³His archers compass me round about;

¹⁴He breaketh me with breach upon breach;

¹⁵I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,

¹⁶My face is red with weeping,

¹⁷Although there is no violence in my hands,

¹⁸O earth, cover not thou my blood,

¹⁹Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,

²⁰My friends scoff at me:

²¹That he would maintain the right of a man with God,

²²For when a few years are come,