{"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/dbt/job/16","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:30:39.691Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":16,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":15,"nextChapter":17,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Job answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage your pain."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But now he hath made me weary; ... thou hast made desolate all my family;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; as mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"For years few in number shall pass, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 16 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 16](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/16)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/16 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}