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| 1 Then Job answered and said, |
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2 I have heard many such things:
Miserable comforters are ye all.
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3 Shall vain words have an end?
Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
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4 I also could speak as ye do;
If your soul were in my soul’s stead,
I could join words together against you,
And shake my head at you.
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5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.
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6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged;
And though I forbear, what am I eased?
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7 But now he hath made me weary:
Thou hast made desolate all my company.
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8 And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me:
And my leanness riseth up against me,
It testifieth to my face.
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9 He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me;
He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth:
Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
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10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth;
They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully:
They gather themselves together against me.
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11 God delivereth me to the ungodly,
And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
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12 I was at ease, and he brake me asunder;
Yes, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces:
He hath also set me up for his mark.
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13 His archers compass me round about;
He cleaveth my kidneys 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 giant.
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15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,
And have laid 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 thou my blood,
And let my cry have no resting-place.
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19 Even now, behold, my witness is in the heavens,
And he that voucheth for me is in high places.
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20 My friends scoff at me:
But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
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21 That he would maintain the right of a man with God,
And of a son of man with his neighbor!
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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 when a few years are come,
I shall go the way whence I shall not return. |
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