# Job 16

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/16

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Then Job answered:
2. “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
3. Is there no end to windy words? What provokes you that you keep answering?
4. I too could speak as you do, if you were in my place. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.
5. I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips would ease your pain.
6. If I speak, my pain is not eased; and if I hold back, how much of it leaves me?
7. But now he has worn me out; you have devastated my whole household.
8. You have shriveled me up, and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up against me and testifies to my face.
9. His anger has torn me, and he has turned hostile toward me; he gnashes his teeth at me; my enemy fixes his piercing eyes on me.
10. They open their mouths wide against me; they strike my cheeks in scorn; they mass together against me.
11. God hands me over to the unjust and throws me into the hands of the wicked.
12. I 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.
13. His archers surround me; he pierces my kidneys and shows no mercy; he pours my gall out on the ground.
14. He breaks through me, breach after breach; he charges at me like a warrior.
15. I have sewn sackcloth over my skin and buried my horn in the dust.
16. My face is red from weeping, and deep darkness is on my eyelids,
17. though there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18. O earth, do not cover my blood; let my cry find no resting place.
19. Even now, look, my witness is in heaven; the one who vouches for me is on high.
20. My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God,
21. that he would argue a man’s case with God, as a person pleads for a friend.
22. For only a few years will pass before I go on the path of no return.

## Nearby chapters

[Job 15](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/15.md)
[Job 17](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/17.md)

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