# Daily Bible Reading | Job 16

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# ***JOB 16***

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*Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You*

\[1\] Then Job answered and said:

\[2\] “I have heard many such things;

miserable comforters are you all.

\[3\] Shall windy words have an end?

Or what provokes you that you answer?

\[4\] I also could speak as you do,

if you were in my place;

I could join words together against you

and shake my head at you.

\[5\] I could strengthen you with my mouth,

and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

\[6\] “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,

and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

\[7\] Surely now God has worn me out;

he has made desolate all my company.

\[8\] And he has shriveled me up,

which is a witness against me,

and my leanness has risen up against me;

it testifies to my face.

\[9\] He has torn me in his wrath and hated me;

he has gnashed his teeth at me;

my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

\[10\] Men have gaped at me with their mouth;

they have struck me insolently on the cheek;

they mass themselves together against me.

\[11\] God gives me up to the ungodly

and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

\[12\] I was at ease, and he broke me apart;

he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;

he set me up as his target;

\[13\] his archers surround me.

He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare;

he pours out my gall on the ground.

\[14\] He breaks me with breach upon breach;

he runs upon me like a warrior.

\[15\] I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin

and have laid my strength in the dust.

\[16\] My face is red with weeping,

and on my eyelids is deep darkness,

\[17\] although there is no violence in my hands,

and my prayer is pure.

\[18\] “O earth, cover not my blood,

and let my cry find no resting place.

\[19\] Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,

and he who testifies for me is on high.

\[20\] My friends scorn me;

my eye pours out tears to God,

\[21\] that he would argue the case of a man with God,

as a son of man does with his neighbor.

\[22\] For when a few years have come

I shall go the way from which I shall not return. (ESV)