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job 16

1 - Then Job answered,

2 - "I have heard many such things.You are all miserable comforters!

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

4 - I 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,

5 - but 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?

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

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

9 - 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.

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

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

12 - 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 target.

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

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

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

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

17 - Although 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.

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

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

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

22 - For when a few years have come,I shall go the way of no return.

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