New American Standard Bible 2020

Job 16:6-14

6“If I speak, 1my pain is not lessened, And if I refrain, what pain leaves me?7But now He has 2exhausted me; You have laid 3waste all my group of loved ones.8And You have shriveled me up, 4 5It has become a witness; And my 6infirmity rises up against me, It testifies to my face.9His anger has 7torn me and 8hunted me down, He has 9gnashed at me with His teeth; My 10enemy 11glares at me.10They have 12gaped at me with their mouths, They have 13 14slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have 15massed themselves against me.11God hands me over to criminals, And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.12I was at ease, but 16He shattered me, And He has grasped me by my neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His 17target.13His 18arrows surround me. He splits my kidneys open without mercy; He pours out 19my bile on the ground.14He 20breaks through me with breach after breach; He 21runs at me like a warrior.

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Notes

1. Job 16:6 Job 9:27, 28 ↩
2. Job 16:7 Job 7:3 ↩
3. Job 16:7 Job 16:20; 19:13-15 ↩
4. Job 16:8 I.e., Job’s condition ↩
5. Job 16:8 Job 10:17 ↩
6. Job 16:8 Job 19:20; Ps 109:24 ↩
7. Job 16:9 Job 19:11; Hos 6:1 ↩
8. Job 16:9 Lit borne a grudge against me ↩
9. Job 16:9 Ps 35:16; Lam 2:16; Acts 7:54 ↩
10. Job 16:9 Job 13:24; 33:10 ↩
11. Job 16:9 Lit sharpens his eyes ↩
12. Job 16:10 Ps 22:13 ↩
13. Job 16:10 Lit struck ↩
14. Job 16:10 Is 50:6; Lam 3:30; Acts 23:2 ↩
15. Job 16:10 Job 30:12; Ps 35:15 ↩
16. Job 16:12 Job 9:17 ↩
17. Job 16:12 Job 7:20; Lam 3:12 ↩
18. Job 16:13 Job 6:4; 19:12; 25:3 ↩
19. Job 16:13 Job 20:25 ↩
20. Job 16:14 Job 9:17 ↩
21. Job 16:14 Joel 2:7 ↩

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