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 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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Job 17:1~16
Job 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
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Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
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Job 17:3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
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Job 17:4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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Job 17:5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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Job 17:6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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Job 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
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Job 17:8
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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Job 17:9
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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Job 17:10
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
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Job 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
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Job 17:12
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
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Job 17:13
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
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Job 17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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Job 17:16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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