{"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/web/job/16","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:40:38.754Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":16,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":15,"nextChapter":17,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Job answered,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"|Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, 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 have thrust my horn in the dust."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"|Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 16 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 16](https://primebible.com/web/job/16)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/16 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}