Job 16:7–16

⁷Surely He has now exhausted me;

You have devastated all my family.

⁸You have bound me, and it has become a witness;

my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

⁹His anger has torn me and opposed me;

He gnashes His teeth at me.

My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

¹⁰They open their mouths against me

and strike my cheeks with contempt;

they join together against me.

¹¹God has delivered me to unjust men;

He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

¹²I was at ease, but He shattered me;

He seized me by the neck and crushed me.

He has set me up as His target;

¹³His archers surround me.

He pierces my kidneys without mercy

and spills my gall on the ground.

¹⁴He breaks me with wound upon wound;

He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

¹⁵I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;

I have buried my horn in the dust.

¹⁶My face is red with weeping,

and deep shadows ring my eyes;