# Job 16

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/16

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Then Job replied and said,
2. I have heard many things like these. All of you are grievous comforters.
3. Is there an end to windy words? Or what emboldens you that you answer?
4. I too would speak like you—if only your soul were in place of my soul, I would string words together against you and shake my head at you.
5. I would fortify you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would assuage your grief.
6. Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; though I forbear, what goes away from me?
7. But now he has wearied me; you have devastated all my company.
8. You have shriveled me, which has become a witness against me; my leanness rises up in me against my face, testifying.
9. His anger has torn me and he has opposed me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10. They gaped at me with their mouths in reproach, struck my cheeks, and banded together against me.
11. God hands me over to the ungodly and flings me into the hands of the wicked.
12. I was at peace, but he tore me apart; he seized me by the neck and shattered me to pieces, then set me up as his target.
13. His archers surround me, he splits my kidneys without pity, and pours my gall onto the ground.
14. He breaks me with breach after breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
15. I have sewn sackcloth to my skin and debased my horn in the dust.
16. My face is smeared red from weeping, and the shadow of death is on my eyelids.
17. My hands bear no violence, and my prayer is pure.
18. Earth, do not cover my blood, and let there be no place for my cry.
19. Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, my testifier on high.
20. My friends deride me; my eyes pour out tears to God.
21. that he would argue for a man with God, for a son of man with his fellow!
22. For when a few years come to me, I shall go the path from which I will not return.

## Nearby chapters

[Job 15](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/15.md)
[Job 17](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/17.md)

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