Iyov, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} Then Iyov answered,
{16:2} "I have heard many such things.
Miserable comforters are you all!
{16:3} Shall vain words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
{16:4} 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.
{16:5} But I would strengthen you with my mouth.
The solace of my lips would relieve you.
{16:6} "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided.
Though I forbear, what am I eased?
{16:7} But now, God, you have surely worn me out.
You have made desolate all my company.
{16:8} You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me.
My leanness rises up against me,
It testifies to my face.
{16:9} 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.
{16:10} They have gaped on me with their mouth;
They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully.
They gather themselves together against me.
{16:11} God delivers me to the ungodly,
And casts me into the hands of the wicked.
{16:12} 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.
{16:13} His archers surround me.
He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare.
He pours out my gall on the ground.
{16:14} He breaks me with breach on breach.
He runs on me like a Rafa.
{16:15} I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
And have thrust my horn in the dust.
{16:16} My face is red with weeping.
Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
{16:17} Although there is no violence in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.
{16:18} "[1>]Eretz[<1], don't cover my blood,
Let my cry have no place to rest.
{16:19} Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven.
He who vouches for me is on high.
{16:20} My friends scoff at me.
My eyes pour out tears to God,
{16:21} That he would maintain the right of a man with God,
Of a son of man with his neighbor!
{16:22} For when a few years are come,
I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.
{17:1} "My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct,
And the grave is ready for me.
{17:2} Surely there are mockers with me,
My eye dwells on their provocation.
{17:3} "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself.
Who is there who will strike hands with me?
{17:4} For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
Therefore shall you not exalt them.
{17:5} He who denounces his friends for a prey,
Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
{17:6} "But he has made me a byword of the people.
They spit in my face.
{17:7} My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
All my members are as a shadow.
{17:8} Upright men shall be astonished at this.
The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
{17:9} Yet shall the righteous hold on his way.
He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
{17:10} But as for you all, come on now again;
I shall not find a wise man among you.
{17:11} My days are past, my plans are broken off,
As are the thoughts of my heart.
{17:12} They change the night into day,
Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
{17:13} If I look for She'ol as my house,
If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
{17:14} If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;'
To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
{17:15} Where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who shall see it?
{17:16} Shall it go down with me to the gates of She'ol,
Or descend together into the dust?"
{18:1} Then Bildad the Shuchite answered,
{18:2} "How long will you hunt for words?
Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
{18:3} Why are we counted as animals,
Which have become unclean in your sight?
{18:4} You who tear yourself in your anger,
Shall the [1>]eretz[<1] be forsaken for you?
Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
{18:5} "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out,
The spark of his fire shall not shine.
{18:6} The light shall be dark in his tent,
His lamp above him shall be put out.
{18:7} The steps of his strength shall be shortened,
His own counsel shall cast him down.
{18:8} For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
And he wanders into its mesh.
{18:9} A snare shall take him by the heel;
A trap shall lay hold on him.
{18:10} A noose is hidden for him in the ground,
A trap for him in the way.
{18:11} Terrors shall make him afraid on every side,
And shall chase him at his heels.
{18:12} His strength shall be famished,
Calamity shall be ready at his side.
{18:13} The members of his body shall be devoured,
The firstborn of death shall devour his members.
{18:14} He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts.
He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
{18:15} There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his.
Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
{18:16} His roots shall be dried up beneath,
Above shall his branch be cut off.
{18:17} His memory shall perish from the [2>]eretz[<2].
He shall have no name in the street.
{18:18} He shall be driven from light into darkness,
And chased out of the world.
{18:19} He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people,
Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
{18:20} Those who come after shall be astonished at his day,
As those who went before were frightened.
{18:21} Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,
This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
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Footnotes:
[1] {16:18} Earth
[1] {18:4} earth
[2] {18:17} earth
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