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Job
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“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
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Job
16
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3
Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
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Job
16
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4
I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.
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Job
16
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5
I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
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Job
16
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6
“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
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Job
16
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7
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
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Job
16
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8
And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.
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Job
16
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9
He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
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Job
16
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10
Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.
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Job
16
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11
God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
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Job
16
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12
I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;
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Job
16
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13
his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
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Job
16
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14
He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
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Job
16
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15
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.
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Job
16
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16
My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,
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Job
16
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17
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
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Job
16
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18
“O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
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Job
16
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19
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.
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Job
16
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20
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
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Job
16
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21
that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
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Job
16
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22
For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.