{"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/ylt/job/16","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:05:37.065Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":16,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":15,"nextChapter":17,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Job answereth and saith: — "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters are ye all."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease — what goeth from me?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"He breaketh me — breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Also, now, lo, in the heavens is my witness, And my testifier in the high places."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 16 (YLT)","markdown":"[Job 16](https://primebible.com/ylt/job/16)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/job/16 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}