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Job 16

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¹Then Job answered,

²"I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!

³Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

⁴I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.

⁵But I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

⁶"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

⁷But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

⁸You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.

⁹He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He has gnashed on me with his teeth: My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

¹⁰They have gaped on me with their mouth; They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

¹¹God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.

¹²I 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 target.

¹³His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

¹⁴He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

¹⁵I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.

¹⁶My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

¹⁷Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

¹⁸"Earth, don't cover my blood, Let my cry have no place to rest.

¹⁹Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

²⁰My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

²¹That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor!

²²For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.

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