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Then Job answered and said, |
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I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. |
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Shall vain words have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? |
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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 mine head at you. |
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{cf15i But} I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage {cf15i your grief}. |
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Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? |
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But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. |
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And thou hast laid fast hold on me, {cf15i which} is a witness {cf15i against me}: and my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face. |
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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. |
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They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: they gather themselves together against me. |
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God delivereth me to the ungodly, and casteth me into the hands of the wicked. |
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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. |
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His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. |
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He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a giant. |
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust. |
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My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; |
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Although there is no violence in mine hands, and my prayer is pure. |
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O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no {cf15i resting} place. |
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Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that coucheth for me is on high. |
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My friends scorn me: {cf15i but} mine eye poureth out tears unto God; |
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That he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbour! |
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For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return. |
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