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or what will provoke thee that thou wilt answer?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Also I will speak as you: if it is your soul instead of my soul, I will join together with words against you, and shake my head against you upon it.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will strengthen you with my month, the moving of my lips shall hold back.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If I shall speak, my pain will not be held back, and shall I cease, what will go from me?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But now he made me weary: thou hast made desolate all mine assembly.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Thou wilt lay fast hold on me to be for a testimony, and my leanness will rise up in me; it will answer against my face.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He rent in his anger, and he will lie in wait for me, gnashing upon me with his teeth; mine enemy will sharpen his eyes against me.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They gaped upon me with their mouth; with reproach they struck upon my cheek; they will fill out together against me.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>God will shut me up to the evil one, and he will cast me into the hands of the unjust.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a mark:<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His multitudes will surround upon me, he will cleave my reins asunder, and not spare; he will pour my gall upon the earth.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He will break me, breaking upon the face of breaking; he will run upon me as the strong one.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I sewed together sackcloth upon my skin, and I thrust my horn into the dust.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>My face became red from weeping, and upon my eye-lashes the shadow of death.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Not for violence in my hands: and my prayer is clean.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>O earth, thou wilt not cover my blood; and shall there not be place for my cry?<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Also now, behold, my witness in the heavens, and my testimony in the heights.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Shall he judge for a man with God? and the son of man for his neighbor?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When years of number shall come, and the way I shall go I shall not turn back.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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