Daily Meditation
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.
Today’s Reading
Job
Chapter 16
Mine eye poureth out
tears unto God.
1 Then Job answered
and said,
2 I have heard many
such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or
what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 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 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of
my lips should asswage your grief. 6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and
though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast
made desolate all my company. 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 He teareth me in
his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy
sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 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 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me
over into the hands of the wicked. 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 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins
asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14 He
breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15 I have sewed
sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. 16 My face is foul
with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; 17 not for any
injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
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