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Then Job answered and said

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I have heard many such things; sorry comforters are ye all

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Shall windy words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest

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I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you

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I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would assuage your grief

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Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased

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But now He hath made me weary; Thou hast made desolate all my company

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And Thou hast shrivelled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face

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He hath torn me in His wrath, and hated me; He hath gnashed upon me with His teeth; mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me

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They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek scornfully; they gather themselves together against me

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G-d delivereth me to the ungodly, and casteth me into the hands of the wicked

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I was at ease, and He broke me asunder; yea, He hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces; He hath also set me up for His mark

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His archers compass me round about, He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground

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He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant

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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust

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My face is reddened with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death

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Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure

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O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting-place

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Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, and He that testifieth of me is on high

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Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears unto G-d

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That He would set aright a man contending with G-d, as a son of man setteth aright his neighbour

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For the years that are few are coming on, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return