1 Then Job, answering, said:
2 I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.
3 Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?
4 I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.
5 I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.
6 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.
7 But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me.
8 But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.
9 My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.
10 He has gathered together his fury towards me, and, threatening me, he has roared against me with his teeth; my enemy has beheld me with terrible eyes.
11 They have opened their mouths against me, and, reproaching me, they have struck me on the cheek; they are nourished by my sufferings.
12 God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.
13 I, who once was wealthy, am now crushed. He has grabbed me by my neck; he has broken me and has place me before him as a sign.
14 He has surrounded me with his lances. He has severely wounded my lower back, he has not been lenient, and he has poured out my organs upon the earth.
15 He has cut me with wound after wound. He has rushed upon me like a giant.
16 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have covered my body with ashes.
17 My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.
18 These things I have endured without iniquity in my hand, while I held pure prayers before God.
19 O earth, do not conceal my blood, nor let my outcry find a hiding place in you.
20 For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.
21 My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.
22 And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant!
23 For behold, a few years pass by, and I am walking a path by which I will not return.
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Job chapter 16 presents the continuation of the dialogue between Job and his friends, who try to explain why he is suffering. In this chapter, Job regrets the fact that his friends cannot understand his pain and states that God is responsible for his sufferings. He also expresses the hope that God witnesses His innocence.
Psalm 22:1 - "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why do you endure you from the words of my angry and don't help me?" This verse expresses the pain and anguish of someone who feels abandoned by God, as Job feels in his situation of suffering.
Psalm 69:20 - "Afrontas broke my heart, and I am very weak; I waited for someone who had compassion, but there were none; and for comforters, but I did not find them." This verse reflects the loneliness and sadness of someone who is going through a difficult time and finds no comfort or help.
Isaiah 53:3 - "He was despised, and the most rejected among men, a man of pain, and experienced in work; and, as one of whom men hid their face, was despised, and we did not do it at all." This verse talks about someone who is despised and suffers, but in the end is recognized and valued. Job also goes through this experience, being despised and ignored by his friends, but waiting for God to recognize him.
Romans 8:18 - "For for me I am sure that the afflictions of this present time are not to compare with the glory that must be revealed in us." This verse talks about how the difficulties we face in this life are temporary and insignificant compared to the reward that awaits us in the future. Job also seems to be aware of this perspective.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 - "Blessed be the God and the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Mercies, and the God of all consolation, who comforts us in all our tribulation, so that we may also comfort those who are also In some tribulation, with the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted by God. " This verse talks about how God is the comforter in our tribulations and how we can use our experiences to help and comfort others. Job also seeks comfort in God and expects his friends to learn from his experience.
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