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| | Job 16:1 | Then Job answered,
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| | Job 16:2 | "I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all.
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| | Job 16:3 | "Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer?
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| | Job 16:4 | "I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.
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| | Job 16:5 | "I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.
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| | Job 16:6 | "If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?
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| | Job 16:7 | "But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company.
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| | Job 16:8 | "You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
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| | Job 16:9 | "His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me.
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| | Job 16:10 | "They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.
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| | Job 16:11 | "God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
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| | Job 16:12 | "I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target.
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| | Job 16:13 | "His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground.
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| | Job 16:14 | "He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior.
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| | Job 16:15 | "I have sewed sackcloth over my skin And thrust my horn in the dust.
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| | Job 16:16 | "My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness is on my eyelids,
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| | Job 16:17 | Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
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| | Job 16:18 | "O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there be no resting place for my cry.
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| | Job 16:19 | "Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high.
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| | Job 16:20 | "My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.
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| | Job 16:21 | "O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!
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| | Job 16:22 | "For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
