Job 16:8-17:9 | ESV | STEP | And he has shriveled me up , which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face .

Job 16:8-22

8 And he has shriveled me up,
which is ^aa witness against me,
and my ^bleanness has risen up against me;
it testifies to my face.
9 He has ^ctorn me in his wrath ^dand hated me;
he has ^egnashed his teeth at me;
my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10 Men have ^fgaped at me with their mouth;
they have ^gstruck me insolently on the cheek;
they ^hmass themselves together against me.
11 God gives me up to the ungodly
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his ⁱtarget;
13 his ^jarchers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys ^kand does not spare;
he ^lpours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breaks me with ^mbreach upon breach;
he ⁿruns upon me like a warrior.
15 I have sewed ^osackcloth upon my skin
and have laid ^pmy strength ^qin the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping,
and on my eyelids is ^rdeep darkness,
17 although there is no ^sviolence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
18 “O earth, ^tcover not my blood,
and let my ^ucry find no resting place.
19 Even now, behold, my ^vwitness is in heaven,
and he who testifies for me is ^won high.
20 My friends ^xscorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,
21 that he would ^yargue the case of a man with God,
as ^{▼▼Hebrew and} a son of man does with his neighbor.
22 For when a few years have come
I shall go the way ^aafrom which I shall not return.

Job 17:1-9

Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?

1 “My spirit is broken; my days are ^abextinct;
^acthe graveyard is ready for me.
2 Surely there are mockers about me,
and my eye dwells on their ^adprovocation.
3 “Lay down a pledge for me with you;
who is there who will put up ^aesecurity for me?
4 Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,
therefore you will not let them triumph.
5 He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property—
the ^afeyes of his children will fail.
6 “He has made me ^aga byword of the peoples,
and I am one before whom men spit.
7 My ^aheye has grown dim from vexation,
and all my members are like ^aia shadow.
8 The upright are ^ajappalled at this,
and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
9 Yet the righteous holds to his way,
and he who has ^akclean hands grows stronger and stronger.