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Job 16

Job Says Friends Are Sorry Comforters

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Then Job  1answered,

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"I have heard many such things;  1 aSorry comforters are you all.

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"Is there no limit to  awindy words? Or what plagues you that you answer?

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"I too could speak like you, If  1I were in your place. I could compose words against you And  ashake my head at you.

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"I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.

Job Says God Shattered Him

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"If I speak,  amy pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?

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"But now He has  aexhausted me; You have laid  bwaste all my company.

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"You have shriveled me up,  aIt has become a witness; And my  bleanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.

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"His anger has  atorn me and  1hunted me down, He has  bgnashed at me with His teeth; My  cadversary  2glares at me.

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"They have  agaped at me with their mouth, They have  1 bslapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have  cmassed themselves against me.

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"God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

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"I was at ease, but  aHe shattered me, And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His  btarget.

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"His  aarrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out  bmy gall on the ground.

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"He  abreaks through me with breach after breach; He  bruns at me like a warrior.

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"I have sewed  asackcloth over my skin And  bthrust my horn in the dust.

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"My face is flushed from  aweeping,  bAnd deep darkness is on my eyelids,

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Although there is no  aviolence in my hands, And  bmy prayer is pure.

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"O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there be no resting place for my cry.

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"Even now, behold,  amy witness is in heaven, And my  1advocate is  bon high.

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"My friends are my scoffers;  aMy eye  1weeps to God.

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"O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!

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"For when a few years are past, I shall go the way  aof no return.



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