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Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul. <V 16:5>I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><V 6:6>I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><V 16:7>But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><V 16:8>But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><V 16:9>My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><V 16:10>He has gathered together his fury towards me, and, threatening me, he has roared against me with his teeth; my enemy has beheld me with terrible eyes.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><V 16:11>They have opened their mouths against me, and, reproaching me, they have struck me on the cheek; they are nourished by my sufferings.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><V 16:12>God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><V 16:13>I, who once was wealthy, am now crushed. He has grabbed me by my neck; he has broken me and has place me before him as a sign.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><V 16:14>He has surrounded me with his lances. He has severely wounded my lower back, he has not been lenient, and he has poured out my organs upon the earth.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><V 16:15>He has cut me with wound after wound. He has rushed upon me like a giant.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><V 16:16>I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have covered my body with ashes.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><V 16:17>My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><V 16:18>These things I have endured without iniquity in my hand, while I held pure prayers before God.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><V 16:19>O earth, do not conceal my blood, nor let my outcry find a hiding place in you.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><V 16:20>For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><V 16:21>My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><V 16:22>And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><V 16:23>For behold, a few years pass by, and I am walking a path by which I will not return.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<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>