1 Then Job answered:
2 "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
3 Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
4 I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
5 I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
6 "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
7 Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
8 And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.
9 He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10 Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me.
11 God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me asunder; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target,
13 his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness;
17 although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18 "O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.
20 My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.
22 For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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Job chapter 16 presents the continuation of the dialogue between Job and his friends, who try to explain why he is suffering. In this chapter, Job regrets the fact that his friends cannot understand his pain and states that God is responsible for his sufferings. He also expresses the hope that God witnesses His innocence.
Psalm 22:1 - "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why do you endure you from the words of my angry and don't help me?" This verse expresses the pain and anguish of someone who feels abandoned by God, as Job feels in his situation of suffering.
Psalm 69:20 - "Afrontas broke my heart, and I am very weak; I waited for someone who had compassion, but there were none; and for comforters, but I did not find them." This verse reflects the loneliness and sadness of someone who is going through a difficult time and finds no comfort or help.
Isaiah 53:3 - "He was despised, and the most rejected among men, a man of pain, and experienced in work; and, as one of whom men hid their face, was despised, and we did not do it at all." This verse talks about someone who is despised and suffers, but in the end is recognized and valued. Job also goes through this experience, being despised and ignored by his friends, but waiting for God to recognize him.
Romans 8:18 - "For for me I am sure that the afflictions of this present time are not to compare with the glory that must be revealed in us." This verse talks about how the difficulties we face in this life are temporary and insignificant compared to the reward that awaits us in the future. Job also seems to be aware of this perspective.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 - "Blessed be the God and the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Mercies, and the God of all consolation, who comforts us in all our tribulation, so that we may also comfort those who are also In some tribulation, with the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted by God. " This verse talks about how God is the comforter in our tribulations and how we can use our experiences to help and comfort others. Job also seeks comfort in God and expects his friends to learn from his experience.
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