15 “I have sewed sackcloth(A) over my skin
    and buried my brow in the dust.(B)
16 My face is red with weeping,(C)
    dark shadows ring my eyes;(D)
17 yet my hands have been free of violence(E)
    and my prayer is pure.(F)

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15 “I have sewn sackcloth over my skin,
And (A)laid my [a]head in the dust.
16 My face is [b]flushed from weeping,
And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 Although no violence is in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:15 Lit. horn
  2. Job 16:16 Lit. red