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or what emboldens 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 stead, I could heap up words 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, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.</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 assuaged: and 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 he has made me weary: 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>And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes on me with his teeth; my enemy 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 smitten me on the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over 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, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His archers compass me round about, he splits my reins asunder, 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 defiled 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 foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>O earth, cover not you my blood, and let my cry have no place.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears to God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When a few years are come, then I shall go the way from where I shall not return.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The American King James Version is Produced by Stone Engelbrite. 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