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But now He has (A)exhausted me;
You have made (B)desolate all my company.
You have shriveled me up,
(C)It has become a witness;
And my (D)leanness rises up against me,
It answers to my face.
His anger has (E)torn me and [a]hunted me down;
He has (F)gnashed at me with His teeth;
My (G)adversary sharpens his eyes to look at me.
10 They have (H)opened their mouth wide at me;
They have (I)struck me on the cheek in reproach;
They have (J)massed themselves against me.
11 God hands me over to ruffians
And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but (K)He shattered me,
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His (L)target.
13 His (M)arrows surround me.
Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;
He pours out (N)my gall on the ground.
14 He (O)breaks through me with breach after breach;
He (P)runs at me like a warrior.

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  1. Job 16:9 Lit borne a grudge against me

Surely he[a] has now exhausted me.
You have devastated my entire family.
You have shriveled me up[b]—it has become a witness;
my frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
His anger tears at me, and he harasses(A) me.
He gnashes his teeth at me.
My enemy pierces me with his eyes.
10 They open their mouths against me
and strike my cheeks with contempt;(B)
they join themselves together against me.
11 God hands me over to the unjust;[c]
he throws me to the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but he shattered me;
he seized me by the scruff of the neck
and smashed me to pieces.
He set me up as his target;(C)
13 his archers[d] surround me.
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and pours my bile on the ground.
14 He breaks through my defenses again and again;[e]
he charges at me like a warrior.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 16:7 Or it
  2. 16:8 Or have seized me; Hb obscure
  3. 16:11 LXX, Vg; MT reads to a boy
  4. 16:13 Or arrows
  5. 16:14 Lit through me, breach on breach