Job 16:6–17

⁶“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,

and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

⁷Surely now God has worn me out;

ⁱhe has¹ made desolate all my company.

⁸And he has shriveled me up,

which is ^ja witness against me,

and my ^kleanness has risen up against me;

it testifies to my face.

⁹He has ^ltorn me in his wrath ^mand hated me;

he has ⁿgnashed his teeth at me;

my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

¹⁰Men have ^ogaped at me with their mouth;

they have ^pstruck me insolently on the cheek;

they ^qmass themselves together against me.

¹¹God gives me up to the ungodly

and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

¹²I was at ease, and he broke me apart;

he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;

he set me up as his ^rtarget;

¹³his ^sarchers surround me.

He slashes open my kidneys ^tand does not spare;

he ^upours out my gall on the ground.

¹⁴He breaks me with ^vbreach upon breach;

he ^wruns upon me like a warrior.

¹⁵I have sewed ^xsackcloth upon my skin

and have laid ^ymy strength ^zin the dust.

¹⁶My face is red with weeping,

and on my eyelids is ^adeep darkness,

¹⁷although there is no ^bviolence in my hands,

and my prayer is pure.