Job Doesn't Appreciate Their So-Called Advice |
Job 16:1-22 Book of Job [in Smaller Chunks] |
Then, Job answered & said, I have heard many things such [as this.] You all are miserable comforters. Shall [your] vain [worthless] words [ever] have an end? What [provokes] you that you [answer?] |
If [you] were in my [place,] I also could speak [like] you do. I could heap up words against you & shake my head against you. But, [instead,] I would strengthen you with [the words of] my mouth. And my lips moving [would relieve] your grief. |
[Although] I speak, my grief isn't [relieved] & [although I remain silent, how] am I eased? But now, [God] has made me [tired] & you, all my company [of friends,] have made [me feel] desolate [& alone.] |
And You have filled me with wrinkles, [that] witness against me. And my [thinness] rising up [within] me, is [visible in] my face. [My] enemy sharpens his eyes on me & tears [at] me in his [anger & bites] upon me with his teeth. |
They have gathered themselves together against me & gaped upon me, with their [mouths wide open.] They have [struck] me on the cheek in [disgust.] [Mark 15:15-20 And so Pilate, willing to [please] the people, released Barabas to them & delivered Jesus to be crucified, when he had [whipped] Him. |
And the soldiers led Him away into the hall, called Praetorium & they [called] together the whole band. And they clothed Him with purple & [wove] a crown of thorns & put it [around] His head & began to salute Him, Hail, King of the Jews! |
And they [struck] him on the head with a reed & spit upon Him & bowing their knees, worshiped Him. And when they had mocked Him, they took off the purple from Him & put His own clothes on Him & led Him out to crucify Him.] |
God has delivered Me to the ungodly & turned Me over into the hands of the wicked. I [had been] at ease, but He has broken Me [down] & taken Me by the neck & shaken Me to pieces & [put] Me as His target. His archers [surround Me.] He [cuts] my [heart strings into pieces] & doesn't spare [Me.] He pours out My gall upon the ground. |
[John 19:32-37 Then the soldiers came & [broke] the legs of the 1st & the other, [who were] crucified with Him. *But when they came to Jesus & saw that He was dead already, they [didn’t] break his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side & [immediately,] blood & water came out there. |
And he, [who] saw it, bare record & his record is true, [so] that you may believe. * For these things were done, [so] that the scriptures should be fulfilled, A bone of Him shall not be broken. *And again, another scripture says, They shall look on him, Whom they pierced.] |
He breaks me [down,] [wound upon wound] & [tramples] on me like a giant. I have sewed sackcloth to [put on] my [body in mourning] & [was disgraced by laying my head] in the dust. |
[Psalm 7:5 Let the enemy persecute my soul & take it. [Yet,] let him [trample] down my life upon the earth & lay my honor in the dust.] My face is [flushed from] weeping & my eyelids [look like] the shadow of death, not [from] any injustice [done by] [my] hands. |
My prayer is also [without blame.] O earth, [don't] cover [up] my blood & [don't let there be] no place for my [cries for help.] Also, [look] now, my witness & my record [are] in heaven, on high [with the Lord God.] |
My friends [look down on] me, but [my eyes] pour out tears to God. O that [someone] might plead with God for a man, [like] a man pleads for his neighbor! |
[Romans 9:20 [No,] O man, but who are you that you [talk back] against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him, [Who] formed it, Why have You made me [like this?] [After] a few years, then I shall [die] & go the way [from which] I shall not return. |
[Job 10:21-22 Before I go [where] I shall not return, even to the land of darkness & the shadow of death. A land of darkness, [like] darkness itself & of the shadow of death, without any order & where the light is [like] darkness.] |