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Job|16:1|-|Then Job answered and said,
Job|16:2|-|I have heard many such things;Troubling |a|comforters are you all.
Job|16:3|-|Do words of wind have an end?Or what has provoked you that you so respond?
Job|16:4|-|I also could speak like you,If your soul were in my soul’s stead;
I could join my words together against youAnd shake my head at you.
Job|16:5|-|I could strengthen you with my mouth,And the movement of my lips would mitigate your pain.
Job|16:6|-|If I speak, my pain is not mitigated;And if I forbear, how much departs from me?
Job|16:7|-|But now He has worn me out;You have desolated all my company.
Job|16:8|-|And You have seized me; it is a testimony against me;And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.
Job|16:9|-|In His wrath He has torn me to pieces and been adverse toward me;He has |a|gnashed His teeth at me.
My |b|Adversary sharpens His eyes at me.
Job|16:10|-|With their mouth they gape at me;They strike my cheek reproachfully;
They mass themselves together against me.
Job|16:11|-|God has delivered me over to the unjustAnd cast me down into the hands of the wicked.
Job|16:12|-|I was at ease, and He broke me apart;Indeed He took me by my neck and dashed me to pieces.
And He set me up as His |a|target;
Job|16:13|-|His archers surrounded me;He split open my kidneys and did not desist;
He poured out my gall upon the earth.
Job|16:14|-|He broke me open with breach upon breach;He ran at me like a mighty man of war.
Job|16:15|-|I have sewn sackcloth upon my skinAnd have cast my horn into the dust.
Job|16:16|-|My face is reddened with weeping,And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job|16:17|-|Though there is no violence in my hands,And my prayer is pure.
Job|16:18|-|O earth, do not cover my |a|blood;And let there be no resting place for my crying out.
Job|16:19|-|Even now, there in heaven is my |a|Witness,And He who vouches for me is in the heights.
Job|16:20|-|My friends deride me;My eye pours out tears to God,
Job|16:21|-|That He would plead for a man in his case with GodAnd for a son of man in his case with his neighbor.
Job|16:22|-|For when years few in number have come,I will go the way from which I cannot return.
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