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Job 16 Summary
Job's Suffering and Mockery
Job replies that his friends are miserable comforters and that he too could speak as they do, heaping up words and shaking his head if their situations were reversed. However, he describes how God has made him weary and filled him with wrinkles; God has torn him in wrath, shut him in with archers, and broken him with breach upon breach. Job has sewn sackcloth upon his skin, his face is foul with weeping, and his prayer is pure. He appeals for a witness in heaven and expresses that his friends scorn him while his eyes pour out tears unto God.
Key themes
Key verses
Job 16:8-9
“And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.”
Job 16:12-14
“I 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.”
Job 16:18-20
“O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.”
Job 16:21
“O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!”
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