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Job 16 📜 📕 ↷
Job Decries His Comforters
1 BUT Job answering said:📜💬📚
2 I have heard oftentimes such things, heavy comforters you are all.📜💬📚
3 Shall words full of wind have an end? Or is any thing troublesome to thee, if thou speak?📜💬📚
4 I also could speak things like to you: and would God your soul were for my soul.📜💬📚
5 I also would comfort you with words, and would wag my head upon you.📜💬📚
6 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.📜💬📚
7 But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.📜💬📚
8 But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, & all my limbs are brought to nothing.📜💬📚
9 My wrinkles give testimony against me, and a false speaker is raised up against my face contradicting me.📜💬📚
10 He hath gathered his fury upon me, and threatening me hath gnashed against me with his teeth, mine enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes.📜💬📚
11 They have opened their mouths upon me, and exprobating have strucken my cheek, they are filled with my pains.📜💬📚
12 God hath shut me up with the wicked man, and hath delivered me to the hands of the impious.📜💬📚
13 I sometime that wealthy-one suddenly am broken: he hath held my neck, broken me, and set me to himself as it were a mark.📜💬📚
14 He hath compassed me with his spears, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out on the earth my bowels.📜💬📚
15 He hath cut me with wound upon wound, he hath come violently upon me as it were a giant.📜💬📚
16 I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.📜💬📚
17 My face is swollen with weeping, and my eye-lids are dim.📜💬📚
18 These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, whereas I had clean prayers to God.📜💬📚
19 Earth cover not my blood, neither let my cry find place in thee to be hid.📜💬📚
20 For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience on high.📜💬📚
21 My friends full of words: mine eye distilleth unto God.📜💬📚
22 And would God a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion.📜💬📚
23 For behold the short years pass away, and I walk the path, by the which I shall not return.📜💬📚
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