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