KJ3 Literal Translation
Job 16
1 Job reproves his friends of unmercifulness. 7 He shows the pitifulness of his case.
1¶ And Job answered and said:
2I have heard many such things. You are all troublesome comforters.
3Is there an end to words of wind? Or what provokes you that you answer?
4I also could speak as you. If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could bind words against you and shake at you with my head.
5I might strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips could spare you.
6¶ If I speak, my pain is not held back; and if I forbear, what part of me goes away?
7But now He has made me weary. You have desolated all my company.
8And You have plucked me; for it is a witness, and my failure rises up against me; yea, it answers to my face.
9His anger has torn, and retained animosity against me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; my Adversary sharpens his eyes at me.
10They have gaped at me with their mouth and with scorn struck my cheek; they gather themselves together against me.
11God has delivered me to the perverse one; and He has pushed me headlong to the hands of the wicked ones.
12I was at ease, but He has shattered me; yea, He has also taken hold on my neck and broken me to bits; and He has set me up as a target for Him.
13His archers surround me; He splits my kidneys and has no pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.
14He breaks me with break on the face of break; He runs on me like a mighty one.
15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have thrust my horn in the dust.
16My face is reddened from weeping; and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,
17¶ though no violence is in my palm, and my prayer is pure.
18O earth, do not cover my blood, and let not be a place for my cry.
19Even now, behold! My witness is in Heaven and my Testifier is on high.
20My scorners are my friends; my eye pours out tears to God.
21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his friend!
22For years of number will come; and I shall not return the way I shall go.
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