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| 16:1 |
Then Job answered,
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| 16:2 |
"I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all.
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| 16:3 |
"Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer?
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| 16:4 |
"I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words 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 could lessen your pain.
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| 16:6 |
"If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?
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| 16:7 |
"But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company.
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| 16:8 |
"You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
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| 16:9 |
"His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me.
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| 16:10 |
"They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.
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| 16:11 |
"God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
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| 16:12 |
"I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target.
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| 16:13 |
"His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground.
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| 16:14 |
"He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior.
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| 16:15 |
"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin And thrust my horn in the dust.
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| 16:16 |
"My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness is on my eyelids,
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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, do not cover my blood, And let there be no resting place for my cry.
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| 16:19 |
"Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high.
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| 16:20 |
"My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.
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| 16:21 |
"O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!
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| 16:22 |
"For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.
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