10 Men have (A)gaped at me with their mouth;
    they have (B)struck me insolently on the cheek;
    they (C)mass themselves together against me.
11 God gives me up to the ungodly
    and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
    he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his (D)target;
13     his (E)archers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys (F)and does not spare;
    he (G)pours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breaks me with (H)breach upon breach;
    he (I)runs upon me like a warrior.
15 I have sewed (J)sackcloth upon my skin
    and have laid (K)my strength (L)in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping,
    and on my eyelids is (M)deep darkness,
17 although there is no (N)violence in my hands,
    and my prayer is pure.

18 “O earth, (O)cover not my blood,
    and let my (P)cry find no resting place.
19 Even now, behold, my (Q)witness is in heaven,
    and he who testifies for me is (R)on high.
20 My friends (S)scorn me;
    my eye pours out tears to God,
21 that he would (T)argue the case of a man with God,
    as[a] a son of man does with his neighbor.
22 For when a few years have come
    I shall go the way (U)from which I shall not return.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:21 Hebrew and

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