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Job 16:1¹Then Job replied:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Job 16:2²“I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 13:4-5 Jas 1:19 Job 11:2-3 Job 19:2-3 Job 26:2-3 Job 6:25 Job 6:6 Phil 1:16 Ps 69:26

Job 16:3³Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 6:26 Job 15:2 Job 20:3 Job 32:3-6 Job 8:2 Matt 22:46 Titus 1:11 Titus 2:8

Job 16:4⁴I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 109:25 Ps 22:7 Lam 2:15 2 Kgs 19:21 Jer 18:16 Matt 7:12 Rom 12:15 1 Cor 12:26 Eccl 10:14 Job 11:2

Job 16:5⁵But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gal 6:1 Isa 35:3-4 Prov 27:9 Job 29:25 Job 4:3-4 Job 6:14 Prov 27:17 Ps 27:14

Job 16:6⁶“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking, how much of it goes away?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 10:1 Ps 88:15-18 Ps 77:1-9

Job 16:7⁷Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 7:3 Job 1:15-19 Isa 50:4 Job 10:1 Job 29:5-25 Job 3:17 Job 7:16 Mic 6:13 Prov 3:11-12 Ps 6:6-7

Job 16:8⁸You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 10:17 Job 19:20 Ps 109:24 Ruth 1:21 Eph 5:27 Isa 10:16 Isa 24:16 Ps 106:15

Job 16:9⁹His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 13:24 Lam 2:16 Ps 35:16 Hos 6:1 Job 19:11 Acts 7:54 Job 10:16-17 Job 13:27 Job 18:4 Ps 37:12

Job 16:10¹⁰People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 35:15 Ps 22:13 Isa 50:6 Lam 3:30 Acts 23:2 Mic 5:1 Ps 22:16-17 1 Kgs 22:24 2 Cor 11:20 Ps 94:21

Job 16:11¹¹God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 27:12 Ps 31:8 Ps 7:14 1 Sam 24:18 2 Cor 12:7 Job 1:13-19 Job 2:7 John 19:16 Rom 11:32

Job 16:12¹²I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 7:20 Lam 3:11-12 Lam 3:4 Job 9:17 Ps 44:19 Ezek 29:7 Job 15:26 Job 29:18-19 Job 29:3 Job 4:10

Job 16:13¹³his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 20:25 Job 6:4 Lam 2:11 Deut 29:20 Ezek 5:11 Gen 49:23 Job 19:27 Job 6:10 Lam 3:13 Ps 7:12-13

Job 16:14¹⁴He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 9:17 Joel 2:7 Judg 15:8 Lam 3:3-5 Ps 42:7

Job 16:15¹⁵I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 37:34 Ps 7:5 1 Kgs 21:27 Isa 22:12 Ps 75:5 1 Sam 2:10 Job 30:19 Ps 75:10

Job 16:16¹⁶my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 1:16 Mark 14:34 Ps 102:3-5 Isa 52:14 Job 17:7 Jonah 2:1-10 Ps 102:9 Ps 31:9 Ps 32:3 Ps 6:6-7

Job 16:17¹⁷although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 15:8 Ps 66:18-19 Job 27:6-7 Job 8:5-6 Isa 59:6 Job 11:14 Job 15:20 Job 15:34 Job 21:27-28 Job 22:5-9

Job 16:18¹⁸“O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 24:7 Isa 26:21 Gen 4:11 Ps 66:18-19 Isa 1:15 Isa 58:9-10 Jas 4:3-4 Jer 22:29 Job 27:9 Neh 4:5

Job 16:19¹⁹Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 1:9 1 Thess 2:10 Gen 31:50 1 Sam 12:5 1 Thess 2:5 2 Cor 1:23 2 Cor 11:31 Job 25:2 Ps 113:5 Rom 9:1

Job 16:20²⁰My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 5:7 Ps 142:2 Job 12:4-5 Job 16:4 Job 17:2 Luke 6:11-12 Ps 109:4 Hos 12:4-5

Job 16:21²¹and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 6:10 Isa 45:9 Rom 9:20 Job 13:22 Job 13:3 Job 23:3-7 Job 31:35 Job 40:1-5 Job 9:34-35

Job 16:22²²For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 14:10 Job 14:14 Job 14:5 Job 7:9-10 Eccl 12:5

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