Parallel Bible results for "Job 16:1-7"

Job 16:1-7

1 Then Job answered and said:

1 Then Job replied:

2 "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

2 “I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!

3 Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

3 Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?

4 I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.

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.

5 I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

5 But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

6 "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

6 “Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

7 Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

7 Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

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