Job 16
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1Then Job answered and said,
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2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
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3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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4I 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.
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5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
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6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
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9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
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10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
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11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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12I 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.
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13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
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14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
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18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
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19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
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20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
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21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
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22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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Chapter 16
Cross References
Job 16:2
Job 13:4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.Job 19:2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?Job 11:2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be...Psalms 69:26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of tho...Job 26:2How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hat...
Job 16:3
Job 6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which...Job 15:2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?Titus 2:8Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may...Job 20:3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causet...Job 32:3Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no...
Job 16:4
Psalms 109:25I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their h...Psalms 22:7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the h...Lamentations 2:15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the d...Jeremiah 18:16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth the...2 Kings 19:21This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daught...
Job 16:5
Galatians 6:1Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such...Job 6:14To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh...Proverbs 27:9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend...Proverbs 27:17Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.Job 29:25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one th...
Job 16:6
Job 16:7
Job 7:3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to...Job 1:15And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the ser...Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.Isaiah 50:4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to...Job 7:16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job 16:8
Job 10:17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me...Ruth 1:21I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye...Job 19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of m...Psalms 106:15And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.Psalms 109:24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Job 16:9
Psalms 35:16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.Lamentations 2:16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the...Job 13:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?Acts 7:54¶ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on...Job 19:11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of...
Job 16:10
Psalms 35:15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the...Psalms 22:13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.Lamentations 3:30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.Micah 5:1Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against u...Acts 23:2And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the...
Job 16:11
Psalms 31:8And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a l...Psalms 27:12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen...Romans 11:32For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.1 Samuel 24:18And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch a...John 19:16Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus,...
Job 16:12
Lamentations 3:11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.Job 7:20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou...Psalms 44:19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the...Lamentations 3:4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.Job 15:26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
Job 16:13
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my...Job 20:25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of...Lamentations 2:11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon th...2 Peter 2:5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of ri...Ezekiel 5:11Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my s...
Cross References
Job 16:2
Job 13:4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.Job 19:2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?Job 11:2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be...Psalms 69:26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of tho...Job 26:2How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hat...
Job 16:3
Job 6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which...Job 15:2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?Titus 2:8Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may...Job 20:3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causet...Job 32:3Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no...
Job 16:4
Psalms 109:25I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their h...Psalms 22:7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the h...Lamentations 2:15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the d...Jeremiah 18:16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth the...2 Kings 19:21This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daught...
Job 16:5
Galatians 6:1Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such...Job 6:14To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh...Proverbs 27:9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend...Proverbs 27:17Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.Job 29:25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one th...
Job 16:6
Job 16:7
Job 7:3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to...Job 1:15And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the ser...Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.Isaiah 50:4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to...Job 7:16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job 16:8
Job 10:17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me...Ruth 1:21I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye...Job 19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of m...Psalms 106:15And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.Psalms 109:24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Job 16:9
Psalms 35:16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.Lamentations 2:16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the...Job 13:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?Acts 7:54¶ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on...Job 19:11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of...
Job 16:10
Psalms 35:15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the...Psalms 22:13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.Lamentations 3:30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.Micah 5:1Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against u...Acts 23:2And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the...
Job 16:11
Psalms 31:8And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a l...Psalms 27:12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen...Romans 11:32For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.1 Samuel 24:18And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch a...John 19:16Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus,...
Job 16:12
Lamentations 3:11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.Job 7:20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou...Psalms 44:19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the...Lamentations 3:4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.Job 15:26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
Job 16:13
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my...Job 20:25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of...Lamentations 2:11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon th...2 Peter 2:5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of ri...Ezekiel 5:11Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my s...