# Job 16 ## Job 16:1 - [KJV] Then Job answered and said, - [ASV] Then Job answered and said, - [YLT] And Job answereth and saith: -- ### Notes on Job 16:1 - ## Job 16:2 - [KJV] I have heard many such things: miserable comforters *are* ye all. - [ASV] I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all. - [YLT] I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters *are* ye all. ### Notes on Job 16:2 - ## Job 16:3 - [KJV] Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? - [ASV] Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? - [YLT] Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest? ### Notes on Job 16:3 - ## Job 16:4 - [KJV] I also could speak as ye *do*: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. - [ASV] I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you. - [YLT] 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. ### Notes on Job 16:4 - ## Job 16:5 - [KJV] *But* I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage *your grief*. - [ASV] *But* I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage *your grief*. - [YLT] I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing. ### Notes on Job 16:5 - ## Job 16:6 - [KJV] Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and *though* I forbear, what am I eased? - [ASV] Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased? - [YLT] If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me? ### Notes on Job 16:6 - ## Job 16:7 - [KJV] But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. - [ASV] But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company. - [YLT] Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company, ### Notes on Job 16:7 - ## Job 16:8 - [KJV] And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, *which* is a witness *against me*: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. - [ASV] And thou hast laid fast hold on me, *which* is a witness *against me*: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face. - [YLT] And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth. ### Notes on Job 16:8 - ## Job 16:9 - [KJV] He teareth *me* in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. - [ASV] He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me. - [YLT] His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me. ### Notes on Job 16:9 - ## Job 16:10 - [KJV] They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. - [ASV] They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me. - [YLT] They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves. ### Notes on Job 16:10 - ## Job 16:11 - [KJV] God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. - [ASV] God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked. - [YLT] God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over. ### Notes on Job 16:11 - ## Job 16:12 - [KJV] I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken *me* by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. - [ASV] I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark. - [YLT] 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. ### Notes on Job 16:12 - ## Job 16:13 - [KJV] His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. - [ASV] His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground. - [YLT] Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall. ### Notes on Job 16:13 - ## Job 16:14 - [KJV] He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. - [ASV] He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant. - [YLT] He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one. ### Notes on Job 16:14 - ## Job 16:15 - [KJV] I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. - [ASV] I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust. - [YLT] Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn. ### Notes on Job 16:15 - ## Job 16:16 - [KJV] My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids *is* the shadow of death; - [ASV] My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; - [YLT] My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids *is* death-shade. ### Notes on Job 16:16 - ## Job 16:17 - [KJV] Not for *any* injustice in mine hands: also my prayer *is* pure. - [ASV] Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. - [YLT] Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer *is* pure. ### Notes on Job 16:17 - ## Job 16:18 - [KJV] O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. - [ASV] O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no *resting*-place. - [YLT] O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry. ### Notes on Job 16:18 - ## Job 16:19 - [KJV] Also now, behold, my witness *is* in heaven, and my record *is* on high. - [ASV] Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high. - [YLT] Also, now, lo, in the heavens *is* my witness, And my testifier in the high places. ### Notes on Job 16:19 - ## Job 16:20 - [KJV] My friends scorn me: *but* mine eye poureth out *tears* unto God. - [ASV] My friends scoff at me: *But* mine eye poureth out tears unto God, - [YLT] My interpreter *is* my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped: ### Notes on Job 16:20 - ## Job 16:21 - [KJV] O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man *pleadeth* for his neighbour! - [ASV] That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor! - [YLT] And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend. ### Notes on Job 16:21 - ## Job 16:22 - [KJV] When a few years are come, then I shall go the way *whence* I shall not return. - [ASV] For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return. - [YLT] When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go. ### Notes on Job 16:22 -