Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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1 Then Job answered, and said:
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Then Job answered:
2 I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.
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"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
3 Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?
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Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?
4 I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul. (16-5) I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.
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I also could talk as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
5 (16-6) I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.
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I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
6 (16-7) But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.
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"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
7 (16-8) But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.
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Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
8 (16-9) My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.
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And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; my leanness has risen up against me, and it testifies to my face.
9 (16-10) He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes.
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He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10 (16-11) They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.
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They have gaped at me with their mouths; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.
11 (16-12) God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
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God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 (16-13) I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark.
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I was at ease, and he broke me in two; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;
13 (16-14) He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth,
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his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and shows no mercy; he pours out my gall on the ground.
14 (16-15) He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.
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He bursts upon me again and again; he rushes at me like a warrior.
15 (16-16) I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.
16 (16-17) My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.
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My face is red with weeping, and deep darkness is on my eyelids,
17 (16-18) These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.
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though there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18 (16-19) O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.
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"O earth, do not cover my blood; let my outcry find no resting place.
19 (16-20) For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.
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Even now, in fact, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.
20 (16-21) My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.
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My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
21 (16-22) And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!
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that he would maintain the right of a mortal with God, as one does for a neighbor.
22 (16-23) For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.
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For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
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