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 asswaged:

⁷But now he hath made me weary:

⁸And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me:

⁹He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me:

¹⁰They have gaped upon me with their mouth;

¹¹God hath delivered me to the ungodly,

¹²I was at ease, but he hath broken 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 foul with weeping,

¹⁷Not for any injustice in mine hands:

¹⁸O earth, cover not thou my blood,

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

²⁰My friends scorn me:

²¹O that one might plead for a man with God,

²²When a few years are come,