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Job 16:1-17:16 — Job's Reply to Eliphaz
Job.16.1-17.16
1Then Job answered and said: 2"I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all. 3Is there an end to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer? 4I also could speak like you, if your soul were in my soul's place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you in scorn. 5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief. 6If I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, what leaves me? 7Surely now He has exhausted me; You have devastated all my company. 8You have shriveled me up, and it has become a witness; my leanness rises up against me, it testifies to my face. 9His anger has torn me, and He has persecuted me; He has gnashed His teeth at me; my adversary sharpens His eyes against me. 10They have gaped at me with their mouths; they have struck my cheeks with contempt; they gather themselves together against me. 11God delivers me to the unjust, and casts me into the hands of the wicked. 12I was at ease, and He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; He set me up as His target. 13His archers surround me; He pierces my kidneys and does not spare; He pours out my gall on the ground. 14He breaks me with breach upon breach; He rushes at me like a warrior. 15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and thrust my horn in the dust. 16My face is red with weeping, and deep darkness is on my eyelids, 17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. 18O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry have no resting place. 19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. 20My friends are my spokesmen ; my eye pours out tears to God, 21that He would arbitrate for a man with God, and for a son of man with his friend! 22For when a few years have come, I shall go the way of no return.
Chapter 17
1"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, the grave is ready for me. 2Surely mockers are with me, and my eye dwells on their provocation. 3Lay down a pledge for me with Yourself; who is there that will strike hands with me? 4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them. 5He who denounces his friends for a share of the spoil, the eyes of his children will fail. 6He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I have become one in whose face they spit. 7My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow. 8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless. 9Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger. 10But as for all of you, come back now; for I will not find a wise man among you. 11My days have passed, my plans are broken off, even the desires of my heart. 12They turn night into day; 'The light is near,' they say, in the face of darkness. 13If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I spread my bed in the darkness, 14if I call to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,' 15where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who will see it? 16Will they go down to the bars of Sheol ? Will we descend together into the dust?" Translation Notes
4/11/2026
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