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vw@Job:16:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

vw@Job:16:2 @ I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all!

vw@Job:16:3 @ Is there no end to windy words? What ails you that you answer thus?

vw@Job:16:4 @ I also could speak as you do, if your soul were in the place of my soul. I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

vw@Job:16:5 @ But I would assure you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would be restrained.

vw@Job:16:6 @ When I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I remain silent, how do I proceed?

vw@Job:16:7 @ But now He has exhausted me; you have devastated my company.

vw@Job:16:8 @ You have seized me as a witness; my deception rises up against me and testifies to my face.

vw@Job:16:9 @ He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; my adversary sharpens His eyes at me.

vw@Job:16:10 @ They have gaped at me with their mouth, and struck me reproachfully on the cheek; they gather together against me.

vw@Job:16:11 @ The Mighty God has delivered me to the perverse, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

vw@Job:16:12 @ I was at ease, but He has shattered me; He also has taken hold on my neck, and dashed me to pieces; He has set me up for His target.

vw@Job:16:13 @ His archers surround me; He pierces my heart and does not pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.

vw@Job:16:14 @ He breaks me with break upon break; He runs at me like a mighty man.

vw@Job:16:15 @ I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and have thrust my horn into the dust.

vw@Job:16:16 @ My face is flushed from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

vw@Job:16:17 @ although no violence is in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

vw@Job:16:18 @ O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry have no resting place!

vw@Job:16:19 @ Even now, behold, my evidence is in Heaven, and my witness is on high.

vw@Job:16:20 @ My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.

vw@Job:16:21 @ Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for the son of his friend!

vw@Job:16:22 @ For when the number of years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

Job 16