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1 Then Job answered,
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1 Then Job replied:
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2 "I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!
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2 "I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all!
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3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
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3 Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
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4 I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.
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4 I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
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5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
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5 But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
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6 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
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6 "Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
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7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
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7 Surely, O God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
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8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
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8 You have bound me--and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
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9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He has gnashed on me with his teeth: My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
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9 God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
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10 They have gaped on me with their mouth; They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
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10 Men open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
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11 God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.
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11 God has turned me over to evil men and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
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12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
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12 All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
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13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.
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13 his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.
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14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
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14 Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.
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15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.
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15 "I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
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16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
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16 My face is red with weeping, deep shadows ring my eyes;
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17 Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
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17 yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
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18 "Earth, don't cover my blood, Let my cry have no place to rest.
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18 "O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!
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19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
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19 Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
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20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
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20 My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
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21 That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor!
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21 on behalf of a man he pleads with God as a man pleads for his friend.
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22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.
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22 "Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return.
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