Then Job answered and said,Job 16:1

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.Job 16:2

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?Job 16:3

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.Job 16:4

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.Job 16:5

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?Job 16:6

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.Job 16:7

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.Job 16:8

He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.Job 16:9

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.Job 16:10

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.Job 16:11

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.Job 16:12

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.Job 16:13

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.Job 16:14

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.Job 16:15

My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;Job 16:16

Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.Job 16:17

O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.Job 16:18

Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.Job 16:19

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.Job 16:20

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!Job 16:21

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.Job 16:22