Welcome to the Job 16 Quiz, exploring the raw emotion and earnest plea of Job as he responds to his friends. In this chapter, Job laments his suffering, confronts God directly, and reveals a profound pain that goes deeper than words. Ready to dive into the heart of Job’s faith under fire? Once you’re done, challenge yourself further with our other quizzes, like the Acts Chapter 10 Quiz, Acts Chapter 9 Quiz, Acts Chapter 8 Quiz, or go deeper with spiritual growth guides like Am I Beyond Repentance? and Enemies of Spiritual Growth.
Job 16 Quiz Questions and Answers
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Answer: C — Job uses painful imagery to describe God’s affliction.
KJV Reference: Job 16:15 – “My close friends…have trodden me down…They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. God delivereth me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. Selah.”
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Answer: C — Job challenges them to reflect on the meaning of their speeches.
KJV Reference: Job 16:3 – “I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.”
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Answer: B — A vivid metaphor for brokenness.
KJV Reference: Job 16:13 – “He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.”
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Answer: D — Job testifies to his firsthand experience of God’s severe judgment.
KJV Reference: Job 16:11 – “My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.”
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Answer: E — Job wants direct access to God for justice.
KJV Reference: Job 16:21 – “Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine enemy had written a book.”
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Answer: D — Job likens his suffering to an ongoing battle recorded before God.
KJV Reference: Job 16:7 – “I could strengthen myself with my sorrow: my heart is stripped bare, and my reins are poured out. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.”
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Answer: B — Job declares that God, not man, is the one who has stripped him of honor.
KJV Reference: Job 16:14–15 – “He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side…”
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Answer: C — Job shows patience and faith, even amid ruin.
KJV Reference: Job 16:18 – “And he will yet fill my mouth with his own laughter, and my lips with rejoicing…”
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Answer: C — Job is deeply wounded by their unhelpful “comfort.”
KJV Reference: Job 16:5 – “My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.”
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Answer: C — Job longs for someone—ideally God—who will listen and respond.
KJV Reference: Job 16:21 – “Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me…”
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Answer: C — Job feels blocked from God’s favor.
KJV Reference: Job 16:13 – “He hath girt me about with chains, and compassed me with bars of iron.”
Question 12: What does Job say he would declare to God?
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Answer: D — Job wants to pour out his lament before God.
KJV Reference: Job 16:4 – “But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.”
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Answer: E — Job contrasts God’s harsh discipline with needed healing.
KJV Reference: Job 16:18 – “Surely God will slay me; he will call the attendants of his wrath against me.”
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Answer: A — Showing how exposed and vulnerable he feels.
KJV Reference: Job 16:15 – “My friend doeth deceitfully like a brook, and as the canal of brooks, they pass away; Into a wilderness shall they go, and perish.”
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Answer: C — He longs for someone to stand between him and God.
KJV Reference: Job 16:19 – “Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.”
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Answer: C — Job acknowledges that only God ultimately bears true witness to his integrity.
KJV Reference: Job 16:19 – “Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.”
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Answer: C — He expresses the crushing emotional toll of false accusations and divine silence.
KJV Reference: Job 16:20 – “My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.”
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Answer: C — Job longs for someone to intercede for him as a man pleads for his neighbor.
KJV Reference: Job 16:21 – “O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!”
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Answer: D — Job foresees his death as inevitable and near.
KJV Reference: Job 16:22 – “When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.”
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Answer: C — Despite the pain, Job still places hope in divine justice and heavenly witness.
KJV Reference: Job 16:21 – “O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!”
