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together against you,</div><div class="po2">And shake my head at you.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I would strengthen you with my mouth,</div><div class="po2">And the moving of my lips would assuage your grief.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged;</div><div class="po2">And though I forbear, what am I eased?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But now He hath made me weary;</div><div class="po2">Thou hast made desolate all my company.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Thou hast shrivelled me up, which is a witness against me;</div><div class="po2">And my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He hath torn me in His wrath, and hated me;</div><div class="po2">He hath gnashed upon me with His teeth;</div><div class="po2">Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They have gaped upon me with their mouth;</div><div class="po2">They have smitten me upon the cheek scornfully;</div><div class="po2">They gather themselves together against me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>God delivereth me to the ungodly,</div><div class="po2">And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I was at ease, and He broke me asunder;</div><div class="po2">Yea, He hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces;</div><div class="po2">He hath also set me up for His mark.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His archers compass me round about,</div><div class="po2">He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare;</div><div class="po2">He poureth out my gall upon the ground.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He breaketh me with breach upon breach;</div><div class="po2">He runneth upon me like a giant.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,</div><div class="po2">And have laid my horn in the dust.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>My face is reddened with weeping,</div><div class="po2">And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Although there is no violence in my hands,</div><div class="po2">And my prayer is pure.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>O earth, cover not thou my blood,</div><div class="po2">And let my cry have no resting-place.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven,</div><div class="po2">And He that testifieth of me is on high.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors,</div><div class="po2">Mine eye poureth out tears unto God;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>That He would set aright a man contending with God,</div><div class="po2">As a son of man setteth aright his neighbour!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For the years that are few are coming on,</div><div class="po2">And I shall go the way whence I shall not return.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE 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