Job 16
Job 16:1 Then Job answered and said:
Job 16:2 I have heard many things like these. You are all working hard to comfort me.
Job 16:3 Is there no end to your windy words? What provokes you that you continue answering?
Job 16:4 I could also talk like you if you were in my place, I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.
Job 16:5 Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.
Job 16:6 If I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, does any of it leave me?
Job 16:7 Surely, he has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family.
Job 16:8 You have shrivelled me up — it has become a witness; my frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
Job 16:9 His anger tears at me, and he harasses me. He gnashes his teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with his eyes.
Job 16:10 They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join themselves together against me.
Job 16:11 God hands me over to the unjust; he throws me to the wicked.
Job 16:12 I was at ease, but he shattered me; he seized me by the scruff of the neck and smashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target;
Job 16:13 his archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and pours my bile on the ground.
Job 16:14 He breaks through my defences again and again; he charges at me like a warrior.
Job 16:15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
Job 16:16 My face has grown red with weeping, and darkness covers my eyes,
Job 16:17 although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.
Job 16:18 Ground, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help find no resting place.
Job 16:19 Even now my witness is in the sky, and my advocate is in the heights!
Job 16:20 My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.
Job 16:21 I wish that a healthy man might argue with God just as any son of Adam would for a friend.
Job 16:22 For only a few years will pass before I go the way of no return.
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Job’s hope
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Monday, January 17, 2022
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