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1 And Job made answer and said,
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6 Then Iyov answered and said,
2 Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
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I have heard many such things; menachamei amal (miserable comforters) are ye all.
3 May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
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Shall divrei ruach (vain words) have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
4 It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
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I also could speak as ye do; if your nefesh were in place of my nefesh, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5 I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
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But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my shfatayim (lips) should relieve your grief.
6 If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
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Though I speak, my grief is not relieved, and though I forbear, mah (what) alleviation is it for me?
7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
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But now He hath worn me out; Thou hast made desolate kol adat (whole household) of me.
8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
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And Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is an ed (witness) against me; and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
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He teareth me in his wrath, who warreth against me; He gnasheth upon me with His shinayim (teeth); mine adversary sharpeneth His eyes against me.
10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.
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They have struck at me with their mouth; they have struck me upon the lekhi (cheek) reproachfully; [Isa 50:6; Lam 3:30] they have conspired themselves together against me.
11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
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El hath delivered me to evil men, and turned me over into the hands of the resha’im.
12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
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I was at ease, but He hath shattered me; He hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for His mattarah (object of attack, target).
13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
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His archers surround me, He pierces my klayot (kidneys), and doth not show mercy; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
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He bursteth upon me again and again; He runneth upon me like a gibbor (warrior).
15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and laid my keren (horn, strength) in the aphar (dust).
16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
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My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the tzalmavet;
17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
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Not for any chamas in mine hands; also my tefillah is pure.
18 O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!
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O earth, cover not thou my dahm, and let my outcry have no makom (place of rest).
19 Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.
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Also now, hinei, my Ed is in Shomayim, and my Sahed (witness, one who vouches for me) is on high [MJ 4:15].
20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
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My friends scorn me; but mine eye poureth out tears unto Eloah.
21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
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O that one might plead for a man with Eloah, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!
22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
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When a few shanot are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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