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Then Job answered and said: |
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"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. |
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Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? |
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I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you. |
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I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain. |
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"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me? |
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Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company. |
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And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face. |
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He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me. |
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Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me. |
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God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked. |
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I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target; |
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his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground. |
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He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior. |
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust. |
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My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness, |
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although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. |
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"O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place. |
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Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high. |
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My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, |
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that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor. |
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For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return. |
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