Job 16

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1Then Job answered and said,
2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.20 cross-references: Job 13:4–5, Job 19:2–3, Job 11:2–3, Psalms 69:26, Job 26:2–3
3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?15 cross-references: Job 6:26, Job 15:2, Titus 2:8, Job 20:3, Job 32:3–6
4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.30 cross-references: Psalms 109:25, Psalms 22:7, Lamentations 2:15, Jeremiah 18:16, 2 Kings 19:21
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.17 cross-references: Galatians 6:1, Job 6:14, Proverbs 27:9, Proverbs 27:17, Job 29:25
6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?5 cross-references: Job 10:1, Psalms 88:15–18, Psalms 77:1–9
7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.14 cross-references: Job 7:3, Job 1:15–19, Job 3:17, Isaiah 50:4, Job 7:16
8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.14 cross-references: Job 10:17, Ruth 1:21, Job 19:20, Psalms 106:15, Psalms 109:24
9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.29 cross-references: Psalms 35:16, Lamentations 2:16, Job 13:24, Acts 7:54, Job 19:11
10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.25 cross-references: Psalms 35:15, Psalms 22:13, Lamentations 3:30, Micah 5:1, Acts 23:2
11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.20 cross-references: Psalms 31:8, Psalms 27:12, Romans 11:32, 1 Samuel 24:18, John 19:16
12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.26 cross-references: Lamentations 3:11–12, Job 7:20, Psalms 44:19, Lamentations 3:4, Job 15:26
13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.18 cross-references: Job 6:4, Job 20:25, Lamentations 2:11, 2 Peter 2:5, Ezekiel 5:11
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.8 cross-references: Psalms 42:7, Judges 15:8, Joel 2:7, Job 9:17, Lamentations 3:3–5
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.13 cross-references: Genesis 37:34, Psalms 7:5, Isaiah 22:12, 1 Kings 21:27, Psalms 75:5
16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;15 cross-references: Mark 14:34, Psalms 69:3, Psalms 32:3, Psalms 31:9, Isaiah 52:14
17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.27 cross-references: Proverbs 15:8, Job 8:5–6, Job 27:6–7, Psalms 66:18–19, Psalms 44:17–21
18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.17 cross-references: Isaiah 26:21, Ezekiel 24:7, Psalms 66:18–19, Genesis 4:11, Jeremiah 22:29
19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.13 cross-references: Romans 1:9, 2 Corinthians 11:31, 1 Thessalonians 2:10, Genesis 31:50, 1 Thessalonians 2:5
20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.18 cross-references: Psalms 142:2, Hebrews 5:7, Luke 6:11–12, Psalms 109:4, Job 16:4
21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!20 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 6:10, Romans 9:20, Isaiah 45:9, Job 23:3–7, Job 40:1–5
22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.10 cross-references: Job 14:10, Job 14:14, Job 14:5, Job 7:9–10, Ecclesiastes 12:5

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