New Living Translation (NLT)
Job 15
33 They will be like a vine whose grapes are harvested too early, like an olive tree that loses its blossoms before the fruit can form.
34 For the godless are barren. Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.
35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their womb produces deceit.”
Job 16
1 Then Job spoke again:
2 “I have heard all this before. What miserable comforters you are!
3 Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air? What makes you keep on talking?
4 I could say the same things if you were in my place. I could spout off criticism and shake my head at you.
5 But if it were me, I would encourage you. I would try to take away your grief.
6 Instead, I suffer if I defend myself, and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.
7 “O God, you have ground me down and devastated my family.
8 As if to prove I have sinned, you’ve reduced me to skin and bones. My gaunt flesh testifies against me.
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