Job 16:6-16

⁶ If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me? ⁷ But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble. ⁸ It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face. ⁹ I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes; ¹⁰ Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me. ¹¹ God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers. ¹² I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. ¹³ His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. ¹⁴ I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war. ¹⁵ I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;