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Job 16:1: Then Job answered and said,<br/>
Job 16:2: I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.<br/>
Job 16:3: Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?<br/>
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.<br/>
Job 16:5: But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.<br/>
Job 16:6: Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?<br/>
Job 16:7: But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.<br/>
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.<br/>
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.<br/>
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.<br/>
Job 16:11: God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.<br/>
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.<br/>
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. <br/>
Job 16:14: He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. <br/>
Job 16:15: I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.<br/>
Job 16:16: My face is foul with weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of death;<br/>
Job 16:17: Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.<br/>
Job 16:18: O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.<br/>
Job 16:19: Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.<br/>
Job 16:20: My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.<br/>
Job 16:21: O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!<br/>
Job 16:22: When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.<br/>
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