Job 16:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But now that God hath sent me aduersitie, thou hast troubled al my congregation.

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  • Job 7:3 : 3 Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes long in vayne, and many a carefull night haue I tolde.
  • Job 1:15-19 : 15 And the Sabees came violently, and toke them away, yea they haue slayne thy seruauntes with the edge of the sword: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 While he was yet speaking, there came another, and sayde: The fire of God is fallen from heauen, and hath brent vp thy sheepe and seruauntes, and consumed them: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 17 And whyle he was yet speaking there came another, and sayde: The Caldees made out their bandes, and fel vpon the camels, and haue caried them away, yea and slayne thy seruauntes with the sworde: and I only am gotten away alone to tell thee. 18 And whyle he was yet speaking there came an other, and sayde: Thy sonnes and thy daughters were eating and drincking wine in their eldest brothers house, 19 And behold there came a mightie great wind from beyond the wildernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, whiche fell vpon thy children, and they are dead: and I am gotten away alone to tell thee.
  • Job 3:17 : 17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest:
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I can see no remedy, I shall liue no more: O spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soule is cut of though I lyue, I wil powre out my coplaynte against my selfe, and will speake out of the very heauinesse of my soule.
  • Job 29:5-9 : 5 When the almightie was yet with me, when my children stoode about me: 6 When my wayes ranne ouer with butter, and when the stonie rockes gaue me riuers of oyle: 7 When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seate, and when I prepared my seate in the streete: 8 The young men saw me and hid them selues, and the aged arose, and stoode vp. 9 The princes left of their talking, and layed their hand to their mouth: 10 The mightie kept still their voyce, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth. 11 When the eare heard me, it blessed me: & when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me: 12 For I deliuered the poore when he cryed, and the fatherlesse, and hym that had none to helpe hym. 13 The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce. 14 And why? I put vpon me righteousnesse, which couered me as a garment, and equitie was my crowne. 15 I was an eye to the blinde, and a foote to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently. 17 I brake the iawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the spoyle out of his teeth. 18 Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest: and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sande. 19 For my roote was spread out by the waterside: and the deawe lay vpon my corne. 20 Myne honour encreased more and more, & my bow was euer the stronger in my hande. 21 Unto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, and with scilence they taried for my counsell. 22 After my woordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them. 23 They wayted for me as for the raine: and gaped vpon me, as the grounde doeth to receaue the latter shoure. 24 When I laughed, they beleued it not, & the light of my countenaunce would they not put out. 25 When I agreed vnto their way, I was the chiefe, and sate as a king with his armie about him: and when they were in heauinesse, I was their comfortour.
  • Ps 6:6-7 : 6 I am weerie of my groning: I washe my bed euery nyght, and I water my coutche with my teares. 7 Mine eye is almost put out through griefe: and worne out through all mine enemies.
  • Prov 3:11-12 : 11 My sonne refuse not the chastening of the Lorde, neither faynt when thou art corrected of hym: 12 For whom the Lorde loueth, him he chasteneth, and yet deliteth in him, euen as a father in his owne sonne.
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lorde God hath geuen me a well learned tongue, so that I can comfort them that are troubled, yea & that in due season: he wakeneth mine eare vp betymes in the mornyng, betymes in the mornyng I say he wyll waken mine eare, that I might hearke as to the schoolemaisters.
  • Mic 6:13 : 13 Therefore I wyll take in hande to punishe thee, and to make thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.

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  • Job 16:8-9
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    8 And that thou hast filled me with wrinckles my fleshe is recorde, and my leanenesse ryseth vp against me and beareth witnes thereof in my face.

    9 His wrath hath torne me he hateth me, & gnasheth vpon me with his teeth: myne enemie loketh fiercely vpon me with his eyes.

  • 11 He hath marred my wayes, and broken me in peeces, he hath layde me waste altogether.

  • 4 And my spirite is ouerwhelmed within me: and my heart is desolate in the midst of me.

  • 6 For all my wordes my sorowe wyll not ceasse: And though I holde my tongue, what am I eased?

  • 2 I haue oft times heard such thinges: miserable geuers of comfort are ye all the sort of you.

  • 16 Therfore is my soule now powred out vpon me, and the dayes of my trouble haue taken hold vpon me.

  • Lam 3:3-7
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    3 Against me is he turned, he turneth his hande dayly against me.

    4 My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he bruised.

    5 He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile.

    6 He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer.

    7 He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me.

  • Job 16:11-16
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    11 God hath shut me vp with the vngodly, and deliuered me into the handes of the wicked.

    12 I was in wealth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, he hath all to shaken me, and set me as a marke for him selfe.

    13 His archers compasse me rounde about, he woundeth my raines, and doth not spare, my bowels hath he powred vpon the grounde.

    14 He hath geuen me one wounde vpon an other, and is fallen vpon me lyke a giaunt.

    15 I haue sowed a sackecloth vpon my skinne, and wallowed my head in the dust.

    16 My face is withered with weeping, & in mine eyes is the shadowe of death.

  • 13 From aboue hath he sent downe a fire into my bones, and it burneth them cruelly: he hath layde a net for my feete, and throwen me wyde open, he hath made me desolate, so that I must euer be mournyng.

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    6 He hath made me a byworde of the people, where as afore I was their ioy.

    7 Myne eye is dimme for very heauinesse, and all my strength is lyke a shadowe.

  • 13 He hath put my brethren farre away from me, and myne acquaintaunce are also become straungers vnto me.

  • Lam 3:15-17
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    15 He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke.

    16 He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones, and roulled me in the dust.

    17 He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges.

  • 3 Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes long in vayne, and many a carefull night haue I tolde.

  • 15 My strength is dried vp like a potsheard, & my tongue cleaueth to my gummes: and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • 19 He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like asshes and dust.

  • Isa 38:12-13
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    12 Myne age is folden together & taken away from me lyke a sheepheardes cotage, I haue hewen of my lyfe by my sinnes, lyke as a weauer cutteth of his webbe: He wyll with pinyng sicknesse make an ende of me, yea he wyll make an ende of me in one day.

    13 I thought I woulde haue lyued vntyll the morowe, but he brused my bones lyke a lion: and in one day thou wylt make an ende of me.

  • 16 For God maketh my heart softe, and the almightie putteth me in feare.

  • 21 They heare my mournyng, but there is none that wyll comfort me: All myne enemies haue hearde of my trouble, and are glad therof because thou hast done it: and thou hast brought foorth the time which thou calledst, when they also shal be lyke vnto me.

  • 11 My dayes are past, and my counsailes and thoughtes of my heart are vanished away,

  • 16 Therfore do I weepe, and mine eyes gushe out of water: for the comfort that shoulde quicken me is farre fro me, my children are driuen away: for why? the enemie hath gotten the vpper hande.

  • 2 How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?

  • 10 For my life is wasted with sorow, and mine eares with mourning: my strength fayleth me because of mine iniquitie, and my bones are putrified.

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    7 Mine eye is almost put out through griefe: and worne out through all mine enemies.

  • 23 he afflicted my strength in the way, he shortened my dayes.

  • 1 My soule is cut of though I lyue, I wil powre out my coplaynte against my selfe, and will speake out of the very heauinesse of my soule.

  • Job 19:9-11
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    9 He hath spoyled me of myne honour, and taken the crowne away from my head.

    10 He hath destroyed me on euery side and I am gone: my hope hath he taken away as a tree pluckt vp by the roote.

    11 His wrath is kindled against me, he taketh me as though I were his enemie.

  • 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.

  • 3 For nowe it woulde be heauier then the sande of the sea: and this is the cause, that my wordes fayle me.

  • 8 Thou hast put away myne acquaintaunce farre from me, and made me to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, I can not get foorth.

  • 13 Is it not so that there is in me no helpe? & that my substaunce is taken from me?

  • 20 Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

  • 1 My breath is corrupt, my dayes are shortened, I am harde at deathes doore.

  • 18 I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.

  • 15 What shall I say? The Lorde hath made a promise to me, yea and he hym selfe hath perfourmed it: I shall therefore so long as I lyue remember this bitternesse of my lyfe.