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Job 16
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Job 16 . 1
1 Then Job answered:
Job 16 . 2
2 “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.TOSKJob 16:2
Job 16 . 3
3 Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?TOSKJob 16:3
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4 I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.TOSKJob 16:4
Job 16 . 5
5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.TOSKJob 16:5
Job 16 . 6
6 Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?TOSKJob 16:6
Job 16 . 7
7 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.TOSKJob 16:7
Job 16 . 8
8 You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.TOSKJob 16:8
Job 16 . 9
9 His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.IPActs 7:54TOSKJob 16:9
Job 16 . 10
10 They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.TOSKJob 16:10
Job 16 . 11
11 God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.TOSKJob 16:11
Job 16 . 12
12 I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;TOSKJob 16:12
Job 16 . 13
13 His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.TOSKJob 16:13
Job 16 . 14
14 He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.TOSKJob 16:14
Job 16 . 15
15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.TOSKJob 16:15
Job 16 . 16
16 My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;TOSKJob 16:16
Job 16 . 17
17 yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.TOSKJob 16:17
Job 16 . 18
18 O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.TOSKJob 16:18
Job 16 . 19
19 Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.TOSKJob 16:19
Job 16 . 20
20 My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.TOSKJob 16:20
Job 16 . 21
21 Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!TOSKJob 16:21
Job 16 . 22
22 For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.TOSKJob 16:22