Job 16

KJVI have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

GIGAKJVI have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.

KJVShall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

GIGAKJVShall vain words have an end? Or what emboldens you that you answer?

KJVI also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

GIGAKJVI also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

KJVBut I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

GIGAKJVBut I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should ease your grief.

KJVThough I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

GIGAKJVThough I speak, my grief is not eased, and though I keep silent, what am I eased?

KJVBut now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

GIGAKJVBut now he has made me weary: you have destroyed all my family.

KJVAnd thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

GIGAKJVAnd you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my thin body rising up against me bears witness to my face.

KJVHe teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

GIGAKJVHe tears me in his wrath, who hates me. He gnashes on me with his teeth. My enemy sharpens his eyes on me.

KJVThey have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

GIGAKJVThey have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek to shame me. They have gathered themselves together against me.

KJVGod hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

GIGAKJVGod has delivered me to the godless, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

KJVI was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

GIGAKJVI was at ease, but he has broken me apart: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

KJVHis archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

GIGAKJVHis archers surround me. He rips my innermost being apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

KJVHe breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

GIGAKJVHe wounds me again and again, he runs on me like a giant.

KJVI have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

GIGAKJVI have sewed rough mourning clothes on my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

KJVMy face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

GIGAKJVMy face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,

KJVNot for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

GIGAKJVNot for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.

KJVO earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

GIGAKJVO earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry have no place.

KJVAlso now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

GIGAKJVAlso now, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

KJVMy friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

GIGAKJVMy friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears to God.

KJVO that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

GIGAKJVOh, if only one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

KJVWhen a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

GIGAKJVWhen a few years have come, then I shall go the way from where I shall not return.