Job Doesn't Appreciate Their So-Called Advice |
Job 16:1-22 Book of Job [in Smaller Chunks] |
Then, Job answered & said, I have heard many things such [as this.] You all are miserable comforters. Shall [your] vain [worthless] words [ever] have an end? What [provokes] you [to answer?] |
If [you] were in my [place,] I also could speak [like] you do. I could heap up words against you & shake my head against you. But, [instead,] I would strengthen you with [the words of] my mouth. And my lips moving [would relieve] your grief. |
[Although] I speak, my grief isn't [relieved] & [although I remain silent, how] am I eased? But now, [God] has made me [tired] & you, all my company [of friends,] have made me [feel] desolate [& alone.] |
And You have filled me with wrinkles, [that] witness against me. The [thinness] that rises up [against] me, is [visible] in my face. My enemy sharpens His eyes on me & tears at me in His [anger & bites] upon me with His teeth. |
They have gathered themselves together against me & gaped upon me, with their [mouths wide open] & have [struck] me on the cheek in [disgust.] God has delivered me to the ungodly & has turned me over into the hands of the wicked. |
I was at ease [with this,] but He has broken me [[down] & taken me by the neck & shaken me to pieces & [put] me as His target. His archers [surround me] & He [cuts out] my [heart into pieces] & doesn't spare [me.] |
He pours out [the bitterness of my liver] upon the ground. He breaks me [down,] wound upon wound & [tramples] on me like a giant. I have sewed sackcloth to [put on] my [body in mourning] & [buried my dignity] in the dust. |
[Psalm 7:5 Let the enemy persecute my soul & take it. [Yet,] let him [trample] down my life upon the earth & lay my honor in the dust.] My face is [flushed from] weeping & my eyelids [look like] the shadow of death, not [from] any injustice [done by] my hands. |
My prayer is also [without blame.] O earth, [don't] cover [up] my blood & [don't let there be] no place for my [cries for help.] [Look] now, my witness & my record [are] in heaven, on high [with the Lord God.] |
My friends [look down on] me, but my [eyes] pour out tears to God. O that [someone] might plead with God for a man, [like] a man pleads for his neighbor! |
[Romans 9:20 [No] but, O man, who are you that you [talk back] against God? Shall the thing formed say to HIm Who formed it, Why have You made me [like this?] [After] a few years, I shall [die] & go the way [from which] I shall not return. |
[Job 10:21-22 Before I go [from where] I shall not return, even to the land of darkness & the shadow of death. A land of darkness, [like] darkness itself & of the shadow of death, without order & where the light is [like] darkness.] |