Job 16:10-14
The Message
6-14 “When I speak up, I feel no better;
if I say nothing, that doesn’t help either.
I feel worn down.
God, you have wasted me totally—me and my family!
You’ve shriveled me like a dried prune,
showing the world that you’re against me.
My gaunt face stares back at me from the mirror,
a mute witness to your treatment of me.
Your anger tears at me,
your teeth rip me to shreds,
your eyes burn holes in me—God, my enemy!
People take one look at me and gasp.
Contemptuous, they slap me around
and gang up against me.
And God just stands there and lets them do it,
lets wicked people do what they want with me.
I was contentedly minding my business when God beat me up.
He grabbed me by the neck and threw me around.
He set me up as his target,
then rounded up archers to shoot at me.
Merciless, they shot me full of arrows;
bitter bile poured from my gut to the ground.
He burst in on me, onslaught after onslaught,
charging me like a mad bull.
Job 16:10-12
New International Version
10 People open their mouths(A) to jeer at me;(B)
they strike my cheek(C) in scorn
and unite together against me.(D)
11 God has turned me over to the ungodly
and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.(E)
12 All was well with me, but he shattered me;
he seized me by the neck and crushed me.(F)
He has made me his target;(G)
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