New English Translation

Job 16:3-16 New English Translation (NET)

3. Will there be an end to your windy words?Or what provokes you that you answer?

4. I also could speak like you,if you were in my place;I could pile up words against youand I could shake my head at you.

5. But I would strengthen you with my words;comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

6. “But if I speak, my pain is not relieved,and if I refrain from speaking – how much of it goes away?

7. Surely now he has worn me out,you have devastated my entire household.

8. You have seized me, and it has become a witness;my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

9. His anger has torn me and persecuted me;he has gnashed at me with his teeth;my adversary locks his eyes on me.

10. People have opened their mouths against me,they have struck my cheek in scorn;they unite together against me.

11. God abandons me to evil men,and throws me into the hands of wicked men.

12. I was in peace, and he has shattered me.He has seized me by the neck and crushed me.He has made me his target;

13. his archers surround me.Without pity he pierces my kidneysand pours out my gall on the ground.

14. He breaks through against me, time and time again;he rushes against me like a warrior.

15. I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,and buried my horn in the dust;

16. my face is reddened because of weeping,and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,