THE BOOK OF JOB --16
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And Job answered and said, |
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I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters. |
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Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you should answer? |
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I also could speak as you do; if your soul were in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you. |
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I might make you strong with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would spare you. |
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Though I speak, my pain is not held back, and though I forbear, in what way am I eased? |
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But now He has made me weary; You have made all my company desolate. |
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And You have plucked me, for it is a witness, and my failure rises up against me, and it answers to my face. |
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His anger has torn and hated me; He gnashes on me with His teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes at me; |
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They have gaped on me with their mouth; |
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and have scornfully beaten me on the cheek; they gather themselves against me. |
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God has delivered me to the perverse; and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. |
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I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark. |
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His archers hem me in; He splits my inward parts, and does not spare; He pours out my gall on the ground. |
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He breaks me with break on break; He runs on me like a giant. |
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I have sewed sackcloth on my skin and thrust my horn in the dust. |
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My face is reddened from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; |
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though no violence is in my hand, and my prayer is pure. |
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Oh earth, do not cover my blood, and let not my cry have a place. |
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Also now, behold, my Witness is in Heaven, and He who testifies of me is on high. |
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My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God. |
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Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor! |
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For the years that are few will come, and I shall go the way from where I shall not return. |
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