Verse 5
Job 16:5
New Living Translation
5
But if it were me, I would encourage you.<br>I would try to take away your grief.<br>
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֲאַמִּצְ/כֶ֥ם בְּמוֹ פִ֑/י וְ/נִ֖יד שְׂפָתַ֣/י יַחְשֹֽׂךְ
English Translation
I will strengthen you with my mouth, and the sound of my lips will be silent.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 16 Context
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Then Job spoke again:
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“I have heard all this before.<br>What miserable comforters you are!<br>
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Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air?<br>What makes you keep on talking?<br>
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I could say the same things if you were in my place.<br>I could spout off criticism and shake my hea...
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But if it were me, I would encourage you.<br>I would try to take away your grief.<br>
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Instead, I suffer if I defend myself,<br>and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.<br>
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“O God (Elohim), you have ground me down<br>and devastated my family.<br>
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As if to prove I have sinned, you’ve reduced me to skin and bones.<br>My gaunt flesh testifies again...
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God (Elohim) hates me and angrily tears me apart.<br>He snaps his teeth at me<br>and pierces me with...
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People jeer and laugh at me.<br>They slap my cheek in contempt.<br>A mob gathers against me.<br>
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God (Elohim) has handed me over to sinners.<br>He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.<br>
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“I was living quietly until he shattered me.<br>He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces.<br>Th...
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and now his archers surround me.<br>His arrows pierce me without mercy.<br>The ground is wet with my...
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Again and again he smashes against me,<br>charging at me like a warrior.<br>
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I wear burlap to show my grief.<br>My pride lies in the dust.<br>
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My eyes are red with weeping;<br>dark shadows circle my eyes.<br>
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Yet I have done no wrong,<br>and my prayer is pure.<br>
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“O earth, do not conceal my blood.<br>Let it cry out on my behalf.<br>
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Even now my witness is in heaven.<br>My advocate is there on high.<br>
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My friends scorn me,<br>but I pour out my tears to God (Elohim).<br>
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I need someone to mediate between God (Elohim) and me,<br>as a person mediates between friends.<br>
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For soon I must go down that road<br>from which I will never return.<br>
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