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And answered and said :
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I have heard many such things .
You are all miserable comforters .
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Is there an end to windy words ?
Or what provokes you that you answer ?
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I also could speak as you .
If your soul were in the place of my soul ,
I could bind words against you and shake at you with my head .
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I might make you strong with my mouth ,
and the moving of my lips could spare you .
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If I speak ,
my pain is not held back ;
and though I forbear ,
what ease do I get ?
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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 at me with His teeth ;
my enemy sharpens His eyes at me .
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They have gaped at me with their mouth ,
and scornfully struck my cheek ;
they gather themselves together against me .
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God has delivered me to the perverse ;
and He has turned me over into the hands of the wicked .
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I was at ease ,
but He has shattered me ;
yea ,
He has also taken hold on my neck and broken me to bits ;
and He has set me up as a target for Him .
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His archers surround me ;
He splits my inward parts and has no pity ;
He pours out my gall on the ground
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He breaks me with break on top of break ;
He runs on me like a warrior .
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I have sewed sackcloth on my skin ,
and I have thrust my horn in the dust .
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My face is reddened from weeping ;
and the shadow of death is on my eyelids ,
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though no violence is in my hand ,
and my prayer is pure .
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O earth ,
do not cover my blood ,
and let not my cry have a place .
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Even now ,
behold !
My witness is in Heaven ;
and He who testifies of me is on high .
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My scorners are my friends ;
my eye pours out tears to God .
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O that one might plead for a man with God ,
as a man pleads for his friend !
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For years few in number will come ;
and I shall not return the way I shall go .
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My spirit is broken ;
my days are extinct ;
graves are for me .
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Are not mockeries with me ?
And my eye rests on their insults .
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Please lay down a pledge for me with Yourself ;
who is he who will strike my hand with me ?
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For You have hidden their heart from understanding ;
therefore You shall not exalt them .
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He informs against friends for a share ;
even his son '
s eyes shall be consumed .
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He has also set me as a byword of the peoples ,
and I am a spitting to the faces .
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And my eye is dim from grief ;
and all my members are like a shadow .
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Upright ones shall be amazed at this ;
and the innocent shall stir himself against the ungodly .
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And the righteous shall hold firmly on his way ;
and he of clean hands adds strength .
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And now all of them ,
go back and please come again ;
and I shall not find among you a wise man .
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My days have passed ;
my plans are broken off ,
the desires of my heart .
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They set night for day ;
light is near in the face of darkness .
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If I wait for Sheol as my house ,
I have spread out my bed in the darkness ;
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I have said to corruption ,
You are my father ;
to the worm ,
My mother and my sister .
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And where then is my hope ?
And as for my hope ,
who shall see it ?
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They shall go down to the bars of Sheol ,
when our descent together is in the dust .
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And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said :