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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1In response, Job said: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?" |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces— then he really made me his target. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return." |
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