{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/16","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T11:03:48.984Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":16,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":15,"nextChapter":17,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Job answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes on me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes on me."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They have gaped on me with their mouth; they have smitten me on the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"His archers compass me round about, he splits my reins asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"He breaks me with breach on breach, he runs on me like a giant."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"O earth, cover not you my blood, and let my cry have no place."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears to God."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"When a few years are come, then I shall go the way from where I shall not return."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 16 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 16](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/16)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/16 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}