Then Job answered and said. ] Having heard Bildad out, without giving him any interruption; and when he had finished his oration, he rose up in his own defence, and put in his answer as follows.
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"How long are you going to keep battering away at me, pounding me with these harangues?
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Time after time after time you jump all over me. Do you have no conscience, abusing me like this?
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Even if I have, somehow or other, gotten off the track, what business is that of yours?
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Why do you insist on putting me down, using my troubles as a stick to beat me?
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