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Job
Says Friends Are Sorry Comforters |
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| Job 16:1 |
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Then Job answered, |
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| Job 16:2 |
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"I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters
are you all. |
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| Job 16:3 |
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"Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues
you that you answer? |
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| Job 16:4 |
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"I too could speak like you, If I were in your
place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you. |
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| Job 16:5 |
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"I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the
solace of my lips could lessen your pain. |
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Job Says God Shattered Him |
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| Job 16:6 |
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"If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if
I hold back, what has left me? |
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| Job 16:7 |
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"But now He has exhausted me; You have laid
waste all my company. |
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| Job 16:8 |
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"You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness;
And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face. |
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| Job 16:9 |
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"His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He
has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me. |
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| Job 16:10 |
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"They have gaped at me with their mouth, They
have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against
me. |
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| Job 16:11 |
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"God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me
into the hands of the wicked. |
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| Job 16:12 |
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"I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He
has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His
target. |
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| Job 16:13 |
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"His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits
my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground. |
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| Job 16:14 |
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"He breaks through me with breach after breach;
He runs at me like a warrior. |
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| Job 16:15 |
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"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin And thrust
my horn in the dust. |
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| Job 16:16 |
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"My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness
is on my eyelids, |
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| Job 16:17 |
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Although there is no violence in my hands, And
my prayer is pure. |
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| Job 16:18 |
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"O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there
be no resting place for my cry. |
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| Job 16:19 |
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"Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
And my advocate is on high. |
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| Job 16:20 |
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"My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to
God. |
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| Job 16:21 |
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"O that a man might plead with God As a man
with his neighbor! |
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| Job 16:22 |
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"For when a few years are past, I shall go the
way of no return. |
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