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or what maketh thee bold so to answere?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But I woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And hast made me full of wrinkles which is a witnesse thereof, and my leannes ryseth vp in me, testifying the same in my face.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, & powreth my gall vpon the ground.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>O earth, couer not thou my blood, & let my crying finde no place.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For the yeeres accounted come, and I shal go the way, whence I shall not returne.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Geneva Bible of 1587<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>