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| 1 And Job answereth and saith: |
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| 2 I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters [are] ye all. |
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| 3 Is there an end to words of wind Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest |
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| 4 I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head. |
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| 5 I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing. |
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| 6 If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease what goeth from me |
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| 7 Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company, |
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| 8 And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth. |
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| 9 His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me. |
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| 10 They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves. |
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| 11 God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over. |
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| 12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark. |
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| 13 Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall. |
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| 14 He breaketh me breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one. |
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| 15 Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn. |
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| 16 My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids [is] death-shade. |
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| 17 Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer [is] pure. |
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| 18 O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry. |
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| 19 Also, now, lo, in the heavens [is] my witness, And my testifier in the high places. |
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| 20 My interpreter [is] my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped: |
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| 21 And he reasoneth for a man with God, And 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 When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go. |
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