Job 16:6–17

⁶If I speak, my pain is not relieved;

and if I cease, how much will leave me?

⁷“Surely now he has worn me out;

you^g have devastated all my company.

⁸Thus^h you shriveled me up;ⁱ

it became a witness.

And my leanness has risen up against me;

it testifies to my face.

⁹His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me;

he gnashed at me with his teeth.

My foe sharpens his eyes against me.

¹⁰They gaped at me with their mouth;

they struck my cheeks with disgrace;

they have massed themselves together against me.

¹¹God delivers me to an evil one,

and he casts me into the hands of the wicked.

¹²“I was at ease, then^j he broke me in two,

and he seized me by my neck;

then^k he shattered me

and set me up as a target for him.

¹³His archers surround me;

he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion;

he pours out my gall on the ground.

¹⁴He breached me breach upon breach;^l

he rushes at me like a warrior.

¹⁵“I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,

and I have inserted my pride^m in the dust.

¹⁶My face is red because of weeping,

and deep shadows are on my eyelids,

¹⁷althoughⁿ violence is not on my hands,

and my prayer is pure.