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Chapter 16
1Job said in reply:
2I have often heard such things;You are all mischievous comforters.
3Have windy words no limit?What afflicts you that you speak on?
4I would also talk like youIf you were in my place;I would barrage you with words,I would wag my head over you.
5I would encourage you with words,My moving lips would bring relief.
6If I speak, my pain will not be relieved,And if I do not—what have I lost?
7Now He has truly worn me out;You have destroyed my whole community.
8You have shriveled me;My gauntness serves as a witness,And testifies against me.
9In His anger He tears and persecutes me;He gnashes His teeth at me;My foe stabs me with his eyes.
10They open wide their mouths at me;Reviling me, they strike my cheeks;They inflame themselves against me.
11God hands me over to an evil man,Thrusts me into the clutches of the wicked.
12I had been untroubled, and He broke me in pieces;He took me by the scruff and shattered me;He set me up as His target;
13His bowmen surrounded me;He pierced my kidneys; He showed no mercy;He spilled my bile onto the ground.
14He breached me, breach after breach;He rushed at me like a warrior.
15I sewed sackcloth over my skin;I buried my glory in the dust.
16My face is red with weeping;Darkness covers my eyes
17For no injustice on my partAnd for the purity of my prayer!
18Earth, do not cover my blood;Let there be no resting place for my outcry!
19Surely now my witness is in heaven;He who can testify for me is on high.
20O my advocates, my fellows,Before God my eyes shed tears;
21Let Him arbitrate between a man and GodAs between a man and his fellow.
22For a few more years will pass,And I shall go the way of no return.
Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society, 1985), via Sefaria, used under CC BY-NC.
Paragraph divisions follow the Masoretic text (Miqra according to the Masorah, CC BY-SA).