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Or what maketh thee bolde so to aunswere?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I coulde speake as ye do also: but would God that your soule were in my soules steade, then could I frame wordes for you, and shake my head at you:<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I shoulde comfort you with my mouth, & releasse your paine with the talking of my lippes.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For all my wordes my sorowe wyll not ceasse: And though I holde my tongue, what am I eased?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But now that <FI>God<Fi> hath sent me aduersitie, thou hast troubled al my congregation.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And that thou hast filled me with wrinckles my fleshe is recorde, and my leanenesse ryseth vp against me and beareth witnes thereof 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 <FI>me<Fi> he hateth me, & gnasheth vpon me with his teeth: myne enemie loketh fiercely vpon me with his eyes.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They haue opened their mouthes wide vpon me, and smitten me vpon the cheeke dispitefully, they gather the selues together against me.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>God hath shut me vp with the vngodly, and deliuered me into the handes 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 wealth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, he hath all to shaken me, and set me as a marke for him selfe.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His archers compasse me rounde about, he woundeth my raines, and doth not spare, my bowels hath he powred vpon the grounde.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He hath geuen me one wounde vpon an other, and is fallen vpon me lyke a giaunt.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I haue sowed a sackecloth vpon my skinne, and wallowed my head in 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, & in mine eyes is the shadowe of death.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Howbeit there is no wickednesse in my handes, but my prayer is cleane.<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, and let my crying finde no roome.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For lo, my witnesse is in heauen, and he that knoweth me, is in the height.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My friendes geue me many wordes to scorne, and myne 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>O that a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with an other:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Yet the number of my yeres is come, and the way that I must go is at hand, from whence I shall not turne againe.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Bishops' Bible of 1568<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>