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| 1 And Job answered and said, |
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| 2 I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all. |
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| 3 Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? |
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| 4 I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you; |
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| 5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage your pain2. |
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| 6 If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased? |
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| 7 But now he hath made me weary; ...thou hast made desolate all my family; |
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| 8 Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face. |
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| 9 His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; as mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me. |
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| 10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me. |
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| 11 *God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked. |
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| 12 I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. |
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| 13 His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. |
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| 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man. |
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| 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust. |
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| 16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; |
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| 17 Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. |
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| 18 O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry! |
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| 19 Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.
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| 20 My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God. |
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| 21 Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend! |
One might plead – He seems to realize his need of someone to represent his cause before the Lord--a mediator. R5401:6, R1506:1
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| 22 For years few in number shall pass, --and I shall go the way whence I shall not return. |
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