Verse 7
Job 16:7
GOD'S WORD Translation
7
But now, God (Elohim), you have surely worn me out.
You have made desolate all my company.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אַךְ עַתָּ֥ה הֶלְאָ֑/נִי הֲ֝שִׁמּ֗וֹתָ כָּל עֲדָתִֽ/י
English Translation
But now, will you completely destroy all my flock?
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 16 Context
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Then Job answered,
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“I have heard many such things.
You are all miserable comforters!
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Shall vain words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
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I also could speak as you do.
If your soul were in my soul’s place,
I could join words together agai...
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but I would strengthen you with my mouth.
The solace of my lips would relieve you.
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“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided.
Though I forbear, what am I eased?
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But now, God (Elohim), you have surely worn me out.
You have made desolate all my company.
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You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me.
My leanness rises up against me.
It testifie...
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He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me.
He has gnashed on me with his teeth.
My adversary sh...
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They have gaped on me with their mouth.
They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully.
They gather...
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God (Elohim) delivers me to the ungodly,
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
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I was at ease, and he broke me apart.
Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces.
He...
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His archers surround me.
He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare.
He pours out my gall on the...
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He breaks me with breach on breach.
He runs on me like a giant.
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I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
and have thrust my horn in the dust.
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My face is red with weeping.
Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
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Although there is no violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
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“Earth, don’t cover my blood.
Let my cry have no place to rest.
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Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven.
He who vouches for me is on high.
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My friends scoff at me.
My eyes pour out tears to God (Elohim),
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that he would maintain the right of a man with God (Elohim),
of a son of man with his neighbor!
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For when a few years have come,
I shall go the way of no return.
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