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| Job 16: (KJV) |
| 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 emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? |
| 4) 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. |
| 5) But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. |
| 6) Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: 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 filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. |
| 9) He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. |
| 10) They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. |
| 11) God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. |
| 12) 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. |
| 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 defiled my horn in the dust. |
| 16) My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; |
| 17) Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. |
| 18) O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. |
| 19) Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. |
| 20) My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. |
| 21) O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! |
| 22) When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. |