>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/job/16?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#07610::c07610) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/job/16.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Job/16.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/job/16/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>Job speaks to his friends in the land of Uz, expressing his frustration with their unhelpful and accusatory words, while lamenting his suffering and maintaining his innocence before God. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>Job feels very sad and hurt because his friends are not being kind to him, and he wishes they could help him feel better instead. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>Job responds to his friends by expressing his disappointment in their lack of comfort, describing them as miserable comforters who only add to his suffering. He describes his intense grief and the physical and emotional toll it has taken on him, despite maintaining his innocence. Job longs for an advocate who would plead his case with God, lamenting the seeming hopelessness of his situation as he anticipates his own mortality. > >#Gospel/Suffering #Gospel/Faith #Gospel/Advocate ###### 1 1 Then Job answered and said, ###### 2 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. ###### 3 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? ###### 4 4 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. ###### 5 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. ###### 6 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? ###### 7 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. ###### 8 8 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. ###### 9 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. ###### 10 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. ###### 11 11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. ###### 12 12 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. ###### 13 13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. ###### 14 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. ###### 15 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. ###### 16 16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; ###### 17 17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. ###### 18 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. ###### 19 19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. ###### 20 20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. ###### 21 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! ###### 22 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.