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| 16:1 |
Then Job answered:
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| 16:2 |
'I have heard many such things;miserable comforters are you all.
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| 16:3 |
Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
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| 16:4 |
I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place;I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
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| 16:5 |
I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
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| 16:6 |
'If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
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| 16:7 |
Surely now God has worn me out;he has made desolate all my company.
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| 16:8 |
And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me;and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.
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| 16:9 |
He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me;he has gnashed his teeth at me;my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
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| 16:10 |
Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me.
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| 16:11 |
God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
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| 16:12 |
I was at ease, and he broke me asunder;he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;he set me up as his target,
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| 16:13 |
his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare;he pours out my gall on the ground.
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| 16:14 |
He breaks me with breach upon breach;he runs upon me like a warrior.
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| 16:15 |
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.
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| 16:16 |
My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness;
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| 16:17 |
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
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| 16:18 |
'O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
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| 16:19 |
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.
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| 16:20 |
My friends scorn me;my eye pours out tears to God,
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| 16:21 |
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.
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| 16:22 |
For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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