Then Job answered ,
Then Job answered :
Translation comparison
Job 16
22 aligned verses; 22 with wording or punctuation differences .
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World English Bible
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"
I have heard many such
things .
Miserable comforters are you all !
“
I have heard many things like
these;
miserable comforters are you all .
Shall
vain
words
have
an
end? Or
what provokes you that
you
answer
?
Is
there
no
end to
your
long-winded
speeches
? What provokes you to
continue
testifying
?
I also
could speak as
you do.
If your
soul
were in my soul's
place ,
I could join
words together
against you ,
And shake my head at you.
I could also
speak like
you if you
were in my place ;
I could heap
up
words against you and shake my head at you.
But I would strengthen
you with my mouth .
The solace
of my lips would relieve
you
.
But I would encourage
you with my mouth ,
and
the consolation
of my lips would bring
relief
.
"Though
I speak, my grief
is not subsided.
Though
I
forbear
, what
am
I eased
?
Even
if
I speak, my pain
is not relieved
, and
if
I hold
back,
how
will
it
go
away
?
But
now,
God,
you
have
surely worn
me out.
You have made
desolate
all my company
.
Surely He
has
now
exhausted
me ;
You have devastated
all my family
.
You have shriveled
me up.
This
is
a witness against
me.
My leanness
rises up against me ,
It
testifies
to
my
face
.
You have bound
me ,
and
it
has
become
a witness ;
my frailty
rises up and
testifies
against me.
He
has torn me in
his
wrath,
and persecuted
me; He has
gnashed
on
me
with
his teeth :
My adversary sharpens
his eyes on
me
.
His
anger
has torn me and opposed
me; He gnashes
His teeth at
me.
My adversary pierces
me
with
His eyes.
They have
gaped
on
me with their
mouth
; They have
struck
me
on
the
cheek
reproachfully.
They
gather
themselves
together against me.
They open
their
mouths
against
me and
strike
my
cheeks
with contempt
; they join
together against me.
God delivers
me to the
ungodly,
And
casts
me into
the hands
of the wicked.
God has
delivered
me to unjust
men;
He
has
thrown
me to
the clutches
of the wicked.
I was at ease, and
he broke
me apart.
Yes,
he has
taken
me by the neck ,
and dashed
me to
pieces
. He has also
set me up for
his target .
I was at ease, but
He shattered
me ;
He seized
me by the neck and crushed
me. He has set me up as
His target ;
His archers surround me. He splits
my kidneys apart,
and does
not
spare.
He
pours
out
my gall on the ground.
His archers surround me. He pierces
my kidneys without
mercy
and spills
my gall on the ground.
He breaks me with breach
on
breach.
He runs
on
me like a giant
.
He breaks me with wound
upon
wound;
He rushes
me like a mighty
warrior
.
I have sewed
sackcloth on
my skin ,
And
have thrust
my horn in the dust.
I have sewn
sackcloth over
my skin ;
I
have buried
my horn in the dust.
My face is red with weeping .
Deep darkness
is
on
my eyelids.
My face is red with weeping ,
and
deep shadows
ring
my eyes;
Although
there
is
no
violence
in
my hands ,
And my prayer is pure.
yet
my hands are
free
of
violence
and my prayer is pure.
"
Earth, don't
cover my blood ,
Let
my cry have
no
place
to rest.
O
earth, do
not
cover my blood ;
may
my cry for
help
never
be
laid
to rest.
Even now ,
behold,
my witness is in heaven .
He
who
vouches
for
me
is on high.
Even now my witness is in heaven ,
and
my
advocate
is on high.
My friends scoff
at
me.
My eyes pour out tears to God ,
My friends are
my scoffers
as
my
eyes pour out tears to God .
That he
would
maintain
the
right
of
a man with God ,
Of
a
son
of
man
with his neighbor!
Oh,
that a man might
plead
with God as
he
pleads
with his neighbor!
For when a few years are come,
I shall
go the way from
whence
I
shall
not
return.
For when only
a few years are past
I will
go the way of
no
return.
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