Job:16:20: My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Job:16:21: O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Job:16:22: When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Chapter 17
Job:17:1: My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Job:17:2: Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Job:17:3: Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
Job:17:4: For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
Job:17:5: He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job:17:6: He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Job:17:7: Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job:17:8: Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Job:17:9: The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Job:17:10: But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
Job:17:11: My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Job:17:12: They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
Job:17:13: If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job:17:14: I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou are my mother, and my sister.
Job:17:15: And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job:17:16: They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Chapter 18
Job:18:1: Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Job:18:2: How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
Job:18:3: Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Job:18:4: He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Job:18:5: Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Job:18:6: The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
Job:18:7: The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Job:18:8: For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
Job:18:9: The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
Job:18:10: The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
Job:18:11: Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Job:18:12: His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Job:18:13: It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
