# Job 16

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] Then Job answered: [2] “I have heard many things like these;
miserable comforters are you all. [3] Is there no end to your long-winded speeches?
What provokes you to continue testifying? [4] 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. [5] But I would encourage you with my mouth,
and the consolation of my lips would bring relief. [6] Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved,
and if I hold back, how will it go away? [7] Surely He has now exhausted me;
You have devastated all my family. [8] You have bound me, and it has become a witness;
my frailty rises up and testifies against me. [9] His anger has torn me and opposed me;
He gnashes His teeth at me.
My adversary pierces me with His eyes. [10] They open their mouths against me
and strike my cheeks with contempt;
they join together against me. [11] God has delivered me to unjust men;
He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked. [12] 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; [13] His archers surround me.
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and spills my gall on the ground. [14] He breaks me with wound upon wound;
He rushes me like a mighty warrior. [15] I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;
I have buried my horn in the dust. [16] My face is red with weeping,
and deep shadows ring my eyes; [17] yet my hands are free of violence
and my prayer is pure. [18] O earth, do not cover my blood;
may my cry for help never be laid to rest. [19] Even now my witness is in heaven,
and my advocate is on high. [20] My friends are my scoffers
as my eyes pour out tears to God. [21] Oh, that a man might plead with God
as he pleads with his neighbor! [22] For when only a few years are past
I will go the way of no return.

## Each verse

- Job 16:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/1
- Job 16:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/2
- Job 16:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/3
- Job 16:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/4
- Job 16:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/5
- Job 16:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/6
- Job 16:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/7
- Job 16:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/8
- Job 16:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/9
- Job 16:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/10
- Job 16:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/11
- Job 16:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/12
- Job 16:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/13
- Job 16:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/14
- Job 16:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/15
- Job 16:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/16
- Job 16:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/17
- Job 16:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/18
- Job 16:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/19
- Job 16:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/20
- Job 16:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/21
- Job 16:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/22