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  16:1 ¶
But Job answered and said, |
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16:1 ¶
Then Job°
answered°°
and said,°° |
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16:2
I have heard many such things: poor comforters are ye all. |
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16:2
I have heard°°
many°
such things:°°
miserable°
comforters°°
[are] ye all.° |
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16:3
What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder thee from answering? |
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16:3
Shall vain°
words°
have an end?°
or°
what°
emboldeneth°°
thee that°
thou answerest?°° |
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16:4
I also will speak as ye [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead, then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you. |
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16:4
I°
also°
could speak°°
as ye [do]: if°
your soul°
were°
in my soul's°
stead,°°
I could heap up°°
words°
against°
you, and shake°°
mine°
head°
at°°
you. |
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16:5
And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips. |
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16:5
[But] I would strengthen°°
you with°
my mouth,°
and the moving°
of my lips°
should asswage°°
[your grief]. |
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16:6
For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less? |
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16:6
Though°
I speak,°°
my grief°
is not°
asswaged:°°
and [though] I forbear,°°
what°°
am I eased?°° |
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16:7
But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and thou hast laid hold of me. |
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16:7
But°
now°
he hath made me weary:°°
thou hast made desolate°°
all°
my company.° |
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16:8
My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face. |
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16:8
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles,°°
[which] is°
a witness°
[against me]: and my leanness°
rising up°°
in me beareth witness°°
to my face.° |
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16:9
In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me. |
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16:9
He teareth°°
[me] in his wrath,°
who hateth°°
me: he gnasheth°°
upon°
me with his teeth;°
mine enemy°
sharpeneth°°
his eyes°
upon me. |
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16:10
He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has smitten me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord. |
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16:10
They have gaped°°
upon°
me with their mouth;°
they have smitten°°
me upon the cheek°
reproachfully;°
they have gathered°°
themselves°
together°
against°
me. |
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16:11
For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly. |
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16:11
El°
hath delivered°°
me to°
the ungodly,°
and turned me over°°
into°
the hands°
of the wicked.° |
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16:12
When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark. |
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16:12
I was°
at ease,°
but he hath broken me asunder:°°
he hath also taken°°
[me] by my neck,°
and shaken me to pieces,°°
and set me up°°
for his mark.° |
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16:13
They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground. |
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16:13
His archers°
compass me round about,°°°
he cleaveth°°
my reins°
asunder,°°
and doth not°
spare;°°
he poureth out°°
my gall°
upon the ground.° |
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16:14
They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might. |
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16:14
He breaketh°°
me with breach°
upon°°
breach,°
he runneth°°
upon°
me like a giant.° |
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16:15
They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground. |
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16:15
I have sewed°°
sackcloth°
upon°
my skin,°
and defiled°°
my horn°
in the dust.° |
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16:16
My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids. |
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16:16
My face°
is foul°°
with°
weeping,°
and on°
my eyelids°
[is] the shadow of death;° |
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16:17
Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure. |
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16:17
Not°
for°
[any] injustice°
in mine hands:°
also my prayer°
[is] pure.° |
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16:18
Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place. |
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16:18
O earth,°
cover°°
not°
thou my blood,°
and let my cry°
have°
no°
place.° |
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16:19
And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. |
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16:19
Also°
now,°
behold,°
my witness°
[is] in heaven,°
and my record°
[is] on high.° |
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16:20
Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him. |
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16:20
My friends°
scorn°°
me: [but] mine eye°
poureth out°°
[tears] unto°
Eloah.° |
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16:21
Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbor! |
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16:21
O that one might plead°°
for a man°
with°
Eloah,°
as a man°°
[pleadeth] for his neighbour!°° |
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16:22
But my years are numbered and [their end] come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return. |
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16:22
When°
a few°
years°
are come,°°
then I shall go°°
the way°
[whence] I shall not°
return.°° |
