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Now Job replied and said,
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"I have heard such [things] many [times]; you are all troublesome consolers.
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Is there an end to words of wind? Or what will bring clarity to you that you should answer?
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I, too, could speak like you; if your soul were instead of my soul, I would join words together against you and shake my head at you.
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I would encourage you with my mouth, and the movement of my lips would cease.
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Should I speak, my pain will not cease, and should I stop, what will leave me?
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but now, it has wearied me; you have silenced all my company.
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You have shrivelled me up; it has become a witness. My leanness has risen against me; it testifies before me.
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His wrath has torn me; yea, He hates me, He has gnashed His teeth at me. My Adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.
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They open their mouth at me, with disdain they strike my cheeks; united they assemble against me.
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God delivers me to a fool and heals me through the hands of the wicked.
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I was tranquil, but he crumbled me to pieces; He held me by my nape and shattered me, and stood me up as a target for him.
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His archers surround me; he splits my kidneys and does not have compassion. He spills out my gall upon the ground.
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He breached me [with] breach upon breach; he runs toward me like a mighty warrior.
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I sewed sackcloth on my scabs and sullied my radiance in the dust.
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My face became shrivelled from crying, and upon my eyelids is the shadow of death.
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But not because of any violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
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O earth! do not cover my blood, and let there be no place for my cry.
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Even now, behold my Witness is in heaven and He Who testifies for me is on high.
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My intercessors, my friends, to God my eye pours out tears.
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Would that a man could reason with God as a man with his fellow.
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For numbered years will come, and I will go on a way from which I will not return.
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