Job16

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(Job 16:1) Then Job answered and said,
(Job 16:2) I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all.
(Job 16:3) Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
(Job 16:4) 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.
(Job 16:5) {But} I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage {your grief}.
(Job 16:6) Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and {though} I forbear, what am I eased?
(Job 16:7) But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
(Job 16:8) 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.
(Job 16:9) He teareth {me} in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
(Job 16:10) They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
(Job 16:11) God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
(Job 16:12) 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.
(Job 16:13) His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
(Job 16:14) He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
(Job 16:15) I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
(Job 16:16) My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids {is} the shadow of death;
(Job 16:17) Not for {any} injustice in mine hands: also my prayer {is} pure.
(Job 16:18) O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
(Job 16:19) Also now, behold, my witness {is} in heaven, and my record {is} on high.
(Job 16:20) My friends scorn me: {but} mine eye poureth out {tears} unto God.
(Job 16:21) O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man {pleadeth} for his neighbour!
(Job 16:22) When a few years are come, then I shall go the way {whence} I shall not return.
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