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Job Chapter 16
Then Job answered,
I have heard all of this before. What miserable comforters you all are. Will this whirlwind of words never end? What have I done to provoke you to speak this way to me. I could say the same things you have said if your soul was in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
But I would not do that, instead I would encourage and strengthen you by what I said, and the words I spoke would be a comfort to you in your time of grief. Though I cry out my sorrow is not relieved and if I remain silent how does that ease my grief? For God has worn me out, my family is gone. I am desolate. He has shriveled me up to skin and bones and you use this against me saying my desolation is God's punishment for my sins. God tears at me in His wrath, He hates me and gnashes at me with his teeth. He has become my adversary and has cast His angry eyes upon me.
You my friends, my comforters speak harshly to me, you strike me reproachfully on the cheek, you side with each other against me. God has delivered me over to the ungodly, into the hands of wicked men.
I was happy and content, but He shattered me. He has taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces. He has set me as His target and surrounded me with archers. He pierces my heart and shows no pity while the bitterness of my sorrow pours out like blood. He breaks me with wound after wound like an unrelenting warrior He rushes in on me.
I have put on sackcloth and laid my head here in the dust. My face is flushed with weeping and my eyes are sunken with the shadow of death. Although I have done no evil, no violence is in my hands. My prayers come from a pure and innocent heart.
Oh earth do not cover my blood, let my cry have no resting place. Surely this very minute a witness is in heaven presenting evidence on my behalf before the Lord.
My friends you scorn me, my eyes pour out tears to God. Oh that there was a man to plead my case before the Lord and that God would listen to his pleading like one would listen to a neighbor.
For soon my years will be over and I will pass on and go the way of no return.”

Job Chapter 17
“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished and the grave is ready to receive me. I am surrounded by mockers. They have insulted me and spoken words to provoke me. Oh God, will you not stand with me and pledge on my behalf? Will no one here side with me in my defense? Oh God, you have blinded them and hardened their hearts of all understanding. Oh Lord, do not let them have victory in this. If they speak falsehood and lies to their friends let the eyes of their children go blind. Oh God. you have made me an abomination in the eyes of the people, they spit in my face and turn from me. My eyes have grown dim from all of my suffering. I am but a shadow of who I once was. Upright men are astonished at what has happened to me. The innocent man rises up against the hypocrite, the righteous man will hold to his way and will grow stronger and stronger. But please now all of you go away, leave me, come again some other time. For not a one of you has demonstrated wisdom in this. My days are past, I have no purpose left in life. All the hopes of my heart are broken. And you try to change the night into day, saying the light is near when there is nothing but darkness. And now if I give into death, if I lay down into darkness, if I say to death you are my father, come take me and if I say to the grave you are my mother and my sister, where then is my hope? As for my hope there is none. All my hopes go down to the gates of Sheol, they will rest forever with me in the grave.”