Job:16
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Then Job answered and said ,
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I have heard many such things :
miserable comforters are ye all .
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Shall vain words have an end ?
or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest ?
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I also could speak as ye do :
if your soul were in my soul '
s stead ,
I could heap up words against you ,
and shake mine head at you .
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But I would strengthen you with my mouth ,
and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief .
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Though I speak ,
my grief is not asswaged :
and though I forbear ,
what am I eased ?
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But now he hath made me weary :
thou hast made desolate all my company .
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And thou hast filled me with wrinkles ,
which is a witness against me :
and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face .
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He teareth me in his wrath ,
who hateth me :
he gnasheth upon me with his teeth ;
mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me .
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They have gaped upon me with their mouth ;
they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully ;
they have gathered themselves together against me .
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God hath delivered me to the ungodly ,
and turned me over into the hands of the wicked .
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I was at ease ,
but he hath broken me asunder :
he hath also taken me by my neck ,
and shaken me to pieces ,
and set me up for his mark .
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His archers compass me round about ,
he cleaveth my reins asunder ,
and doth not spare ;
he poureth out my gall upon the ground .
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He breaketh me with breach upon breach ,
he runneth upon me like a giant .
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin ,
and defiled my horn in the dust .
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My face is foul with weeping ,
and on my eyelids is the shadow of death ;
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Not for any injustice in mine hands :
also my prayer is pure .
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O earth ,
cover not thou my blood ,
and let my cry have no place .
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Also now ,
behold ,
my witness is in heaven ,
and my record is on high .
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My friends scorn me :
but mine eye poureth out tears unto God .
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O that one might plead for a man with God ,
as a man pleadeth for his neighbour !
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When a few years are come ,
then I shall go the way whence I shall not return .