Job 16:6–17

⁶“Though I speak, my grief is not relieved;

And if I remain silent, how am I eased?

⁷But now He has ^cworn me out;

You ^dhave made desolate all my company.

⁸You have shriveled me up,

And it is a ^ewitness against me;

My leanness rises up against me

And bears witness to my face.

^9fHe tears me in His wrath, and hates me;

He gnashes at me with His teeth;

^gMy adversary sharpens His gaze on me.

¹⁰They ^hgape at me with their mouth,

They ⁱstrike me reproachfully on the cheek,

They gather together against me.

¹¹God ^jhas delivered me to the ungodly,

And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.

¹²I was at ease, but He has ^kshattered me;

He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces;

He has ^lset me up for His target,

¹³His archers surround me.

He pierces my ³heart and does not pity;

He pours out my gall on the ground.

¹⁴He breaks me with wound upon wound;

He runs at me like a ⁴warrior.

¹⁵“I have sewn sackcloth over my skin,

And ^mlaid my ⁵head in the dust.

¹⁶My face is ⁶flushed from weeping,

And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

¹⁷Although no violence is in my hands,

And my prayer is pure.