Job 16
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Job 16:2
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"I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all.
Job 16:3
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"Is there {no} limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer?
Job 16:4
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"I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.
Job 16:5
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"I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen {your pain.}
Job 16:6
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"If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?
Job 16:7
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"But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company.
Job 16:8
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"You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
Job 16:9
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"His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me.
Job 16:10
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"They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.
Job 16:11
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"God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12
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"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.
Job 16:13
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"His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground.
Job 16:14
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"He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior.
Job 16:15
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"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin And thrust my horn in the dust.
Job 16:16
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"My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness is on my eyelids,
Job 16:17
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Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Job 16:18
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"O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there be no {resting} place for my cry.
Job 16:19
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"Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high.
Job 16:20
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"My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.
Job 16:21
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"O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!
Job 16:22
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"For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.
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