Job Chapter 16 - Bible in Basic English

1

And Job made answer and said,

2

Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.JOB:13:4
JOB:21:34
PS:69:20

3

May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?JOB:6:26

4

It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:JOB:21:4
2KG:19:21
PS:22:7
PS:109:25
ZEP:2:15
MAT:27:39

5

I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

6

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?JOB:9:27-28

7

But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.JOB:7:3
JOB:16:20
JOB:19:13-15

8

It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.JOB:30:12
JOB:10:17
JOB:19:20
PS:109:24

9

I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;JOB:18:4
JOB:19:11
HOS:6:1
PS:35:16
LAM:2:16
ACT:7:54

10

Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.PS:22:13
ISA:50:6
LAM:3:30
ACT:23:2
JOB:30:12
PS:35:15

11

God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.JOB:9:24
JOB:10:3

12

I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.JOB:30:16
LAM:3:11
JOB:9:17
JOB:7:20
LAM:3:12

13

His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.JOB:6:4
JOB:20:25
LAM:2:4

14

I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.JOB:9:17

15

I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.GEN:37:34
PS:69:11
PS:7:2

16

My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;JOB:24:17

17

Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.JOB:33:9
ISA:59:6
JON:3:8
JOB:27:4

18

O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!PS:9:13
HEB:11:4
REV:6:10
ISA:26:21

19

Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.JOB:19:25
GEN:31:50
ROM:1:9
PHL:1:8
1TS:2:5
JOB:31:2

20

My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,JOB:17:7
LAM:2:18-19
JOB:19:13

21

So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

22

For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.