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Job 16

Job Says Friends Are Miserable Comforters

Job 16:1

Then Job answered and said,

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Job 16:2

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

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Job 16:3

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

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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.

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Job 16:5

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

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Job Says God Shattered Him

Job 16:6

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

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Job 16:7

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Job 16:11

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

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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.

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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.

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Job 16:14

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

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Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

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Job 16:16

My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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Job 16:17

Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

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Job 16:18

O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

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Job 16:19

Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

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Job 16:20

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

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Job 16:21

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

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Job 16:22

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

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