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Then answered Job ,
and said ,
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I have heard many things such as these :
troublesome comforters are ye all .
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Shall there be any end to words of wind ?
or what compelleth thee that thou shouldst answer ?
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I also could well speak as ye do :
if your soul were but in my soul
s stead ,
I could overwhelm you with words ,
and could shake my head at you .
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But I would strengthen you with my mouth ,
and the condolence of my lips should restrain .
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Though I were to speak ,
my pain would not be restrained ;
and though I should forbear ,
what will go away from me ?
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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 ,
they are my witnesses ;
and my leanness riseth up for me ,
giveth its testimony to my face .
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In his wrath he teareth me to pieces ,
and assaileth me :
he gnasheth over me with his teeth ;
my adversary sendeth threatening looks at me .
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They now open wide against me their mouth ;
reproachfully they smite my cheek :
altogether do they assemble against me .
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God hath surrendered me to the unjust ,
and cast me down into the hands of the wicked .
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I was at ease ,
but he hath crushed me ;
he hath also grasped me by the neck ,
and shaken me to pieces ,
and set me up unto himself as a mark ;
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His archers encompass me round about ;
he cleaveth my reins sunder ,
and doth not pity ;
he poureth out upon the ground my gall ;
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He breaketh me down with breach upon breach ;
he runneth against me like a mighty man .
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Sackcloth have I sewed upon my skin ,
and my horn I roll in the dust .
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My face gloweth from weeping ,
and on my eyelids resteth the shadow of death :
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Not because any violence is in my hands ,
and while my prayer is pure .
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Earth !
do thou not cover up my blood ,
and let no place restrain my cry .
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Even now ,
behold ,
my witness is in the heavens ,
and one that testifieth for me is on high .
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Are my friends my defenders ?
unto God my eye poureth out .
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And oh that a man might plead with God ,
as one son of earth with the other !
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For when the numbered years are passed ,
then must I travel a path whence I cannot return .
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My spirit is broken ,
my days are cut short ,
the grave is ready for me .
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Yet truly those that mock are with me ,
and on their offendings must my eye rest .
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And thou ,
attend ,
I pray thee ,
be my surety with thyself :
who else is there that would strike hands with me ?
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For thou hast concealed their heart against intelligence :
therefore art thou not exalted .
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Every one of them speaketh deceptively to his friends :
may also the eyes of his children fail .
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And he hath placed me here as a by
word unto nations ;
and I become openly as a place of abomination .
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Therefore is my eye dim from vexation ,
and my limbs are all of them like a shadow .
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Upright men must be astonished at this ,
and the innocent must arouse himself against the hypocrite .
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Yet will the righteous hold firmly on to his way ;
and he that is clean of hands will acquire additional strength .
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But all of you ,
do only return ,
and come but :
and yet I shall not find among you one wise man .
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My days are past ,
my resolves are broken off ,
the possessions of my heart .
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These would change the night into day ,
the light as near in the presence of darkness .
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When I hope for the nether world as my house ;
in the darkness have I spread my couch ;
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When I call to corruption ,
Thou art my father :
Thou art my mother ,
and my sister ,
to the worms .
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Ay ,
where is then my hope ?
as for my hope ,
who will see it ?
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Let then my limbs sink down to the nether world :
truly in the dust alone there is rest for all .
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Then answered Bildad the Shuchite ,
and said ,