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| Job 16: (ASV) |
| 1) Then Job answered and said, |
| 2) I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all. |
| 3) Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? |
| 4) I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you. |
| 5) But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief. |
| 6) Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased? |
| 7) But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company. |
| 8) And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face. |
| 9) He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me. |
| 10) They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me. |
| 11) God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked. |
| 12) I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark. |
| 13) His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground. |
| 14) He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant. |
| 15) I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust. |
| 16) My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; |
| 17) Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. |
| 18) O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no resting-place. |
| 19) Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high. |
| 20) My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God, |
| 21) That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor! |
| 22) For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return. |