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You are all miserable comforters!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>"Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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