Job 16:7-14

New International Reader's Version

⁷ God has worn me out completely.
    He has destroyed my whole family.
⁸ People can see the condition he has put me in.
    My thin body stands as a witness against me.
⁹ God is angry with me.
    He attacks me and tears me up.
He grinds his teeth at me.
    He stares at me as if he were my enemy.
¹⁰ People make fun of me.
    They slap my face and laugh at me.
    All of them join together against me.
¹¹ God has turned me over to sinful people.
    He has handed me over to them.
¹² Everything was going well with me.
    But he broke me into pieces like a clay pot.
    He grabbed me by the neck and crushed me.
He has taken aim at me.
¹³     He shoots his arrows at me from all sides.
Without pity, he stabs me in the kidneys.
    He spills my insides on the ground.
¹⁴ He smashes through me as if I were a wall.
    He rushes at me like a fighting man.