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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job answered and said, |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I 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. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I 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. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. |
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