015:034 For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. 015:035 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit." 016:001 Then Job answered, 016:002 "I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters! 016:003 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? 016:004 I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you, 016:005 but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you. 016:006 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased? 016:007 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company. 016:008 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face. 016:009 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me. 016:010 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me. 016:011 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked. 016:012 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. 016:013 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground. 016:014 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant. 016:015 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust. 016:016 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids. 016:017 Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. 016:018 "Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest. 016:019 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high. 016:020 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, 016:021 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor! 016:022 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return. 017:001 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me. 017:002 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation. 017:003 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me? 017:004 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore shall you not exalt them. 017:005 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. 017:006 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.