Job, Chapter 16
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Then Job answered and said,
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I have heard many such things:Miserable comforters are all of you⁺.
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Will vain words have an end?Or what provokes you that you answer?
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I also could speak as you⁺ do;If your⁺ soul were in my soul's stead,I could join words together against you⁺,And shake my head at you⁺.
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[But] I would strengthen you⁺ with my mouth,And the solace of my lips would assuage [your⁺ grief].
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Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged;And though I forbear, what am I eased?
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But now he has made me weary:You have made desolate all my company.
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And you have shriveled me up, [which] is a witness [against me]:And my leanness rises up against me,It testifies to my face.
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He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me;He has gnashed on me with his teeth:My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
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They have gaped on me with their mouth;They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully:They gather themselves together against me.
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God delivers me to the ungodly,And casts me into the hands of the wicked.
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I was at ease, and he broke me apart;Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces:He has also set me up for his mark.
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His archers circle me round about;He splits my reins apart, and does not spare;He pours out my gall on the ground.
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He breaks me with breach on breach;He runs on me like a giant.
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I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,And have laid my horn in the dust.
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My face is red with weeping,And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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Although there is no violence in my hands,And my prayer is pure.
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O earth, do not cover my blood,And let my cry have no [resting]-place.
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Even now, look, my witness is in heaven,And he who vouches for me is on high.
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My companions scoff at me:[But] my eye pours out tears to God,
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That he would maintain the right of a [noble] man with God,And of a son of man with his fellow man!
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For when a few years have come,I will go the way from where I will not return.
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