---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Job from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 16
verse_count: 22
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Job, chap. 16, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Job 16

*Job maintaineth his innocency.*

**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 assuage your grief.
**6** Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; 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 the 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.
**18** O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my have no place.
**19** Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
**20** My friends scorn me; but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
**21** Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! I
**22** When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.