Job 16

1Then Job answered and said:

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2'I have heard many such things; You are all bad comforters.

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3What order is there in words of wind? Or what troubles you, that you answer thus?

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4I also could speak as you do, If indeed your soul were in my soul's place. Then I would attack you with words And shake my head at you.

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5But would there were strength in my mouth: Then I would not spare the movement of my lips.

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6'If I should speak, I would feel the pain of my wound, But if I also should be silent, how would I be less wounded?

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7But now He has made me weary and a worn-out fool, And you have laid hold of me.

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8My falsehood has become a testimony. It rises up and argues against me to my face.

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9He vented His wrath and struck me down; He gnashed at me with His teeth; The arrows of the raiders fell on me.

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10He attacked me with the sharp darts of His eyes; He struck me on the cheek; With one accord they ran me down.

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11For the Lord delivered me into the hands of an unjust man And cast me upon the ungodly.

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12When I was at peace, He rejected me. He took me by the hair of my head and pulled it out. He set me up as a mark.

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13They surrounded me with spears aimed at my mind. Without sparing me, they poured out my gall on the ground.

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14Running at me with all their strength, They knocked me down, head over heels.

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15I sewed sackcloth on my skin, And my strength is spent on the ground.

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16My belly is on fire because of weeping, And shade is on my eyelids.

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17Yet there was no wrongdoing in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

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18O earth, do not cover the blood of my flesh, Nor may my cry have a place.

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19Now behold, my witness is in the heavens, And the One who knows me thoroughly is on high.

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20May my supplication come before the Lord, And may my eyes pour out tears in His presence.

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21May there be rebuttal for a man before the Lord, As a son of man with his neighbor.

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22For my years are numbered, And I shall go the way of no return.

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