Job 16:6–17

Job Says God Shattered Him

⁶“If I speak, ^amy pain is not lessened,

And if I hold back, what has left me?

⁷“But now He has ^aexhausted me;

You have laid ^bwaste all my company.

⁸“You have shriveled me up,

^aIt has become a witness;

And my ^bleanness rises up against me,

It testifies to my face.

⁹“His anger has ^atorn me and ¹hunted me down,

He has ^bgnashed at me with His teeth;

My ^cadversary ²glares at me.

¹⁰“They have ^agaped at me with their mouth,

They have ^1bslapped me on the cheek with contempt;

They have ^cmassed themselves against me.

¹¹“God hands me over to ruffians

And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

¹²“I was at ease, but ^aHe shattered me,

And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;

He has also set me up as His ^btarget.

¹³“His ^aarrows surround me.

Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;

He pours out ^bmy gall on the ground.

¹⁴“He ^abreaks through me with breach after breach;

He ^bruns at me like a warrior.

¹⁵“I have sewed ^asackcloth over my skin

And ^bthrust my horn in the dust.

¹⁶“My face is flushed from ^aweeping,

^bAnd deep darkness is on my eyelids,

¹⁷Although there is no ^aviolence in my hands,

And ^bmy prayer is pure.