God Has Made Me Weary
Job 16:6-16
6
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
7
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
8
You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
9
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
10
They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
11
God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
12
I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
13
His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
14
He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
15
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
16
My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
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