Basic English Bible Verse Images: Job Chapter 16 in Stunning Detail
Job 16:1. And Job made answer and said,
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Job 16:2. Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
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Job 16:3. May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
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Job 16:4. 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:
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Job 16:5. I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
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Job 16:6. 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?
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Job 16:7. But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
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Job 16:8. It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
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Job 16:9. 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;
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Job 16:10. 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.
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Job 16:11. God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
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Job 16:12. 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.
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Job 16:13. His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
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Job 16:14. I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
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Job 16:15. I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
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Job 16:16. My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
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Job 16:17. Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
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Job 16:18. O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!
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Job 16:19. Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.
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Job 16:20. My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
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Job 16:21. So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
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Job 16:22. For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
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