<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1013324">Job</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1013709">Chapter 16</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1013673">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1013732">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Job's Response</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013710">1</a>. THEN Job answered and said,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013711">2</a>. I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013712">3</a>. Shall vain words have an end?  or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013713">4</a>. I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013714">5</a>. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013715">6</a>. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013716">7</a>. But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013717">8</a>. And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013718">9</a>. He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013719">10</a>. They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013720">11</a>. God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013721">12</a>. I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013722">13</a>. His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013723">14</a>. He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013724">15</a>. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013725">16</a>. My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013726">17</a>. Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013727">18</a>. O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013728">19</a>. Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013729">20</a>. My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013730">21</a>. O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013731">22</a>. When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.</li>
</ul><!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1013324">Job</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1013709">Chapter 16</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1013673">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1013732">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><div class="lds_official">[<a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/job/16">View Job Chapter 16 at the Official LDS Website</a>]</div>