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16:1  Then Job answered and said,
16:2  I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.
16:3  Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?
16:4  I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.
16:5  But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would relieve your grief.
16:6  Though I speak, my grief is not relieved: and though I forbear, how am I eased?
16:7  But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.
16:8  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.
16:9  He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.
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.
16:11  God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
16:12  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.
16:13  His archers surround me, he slashes my kidneys asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.
16:14  He breaks me with breach upon breach, he runs upon me like a warrior.
16:15  I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and laid my strength in the dust.
16:16  My face is foul from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
16:17  Not for any violence in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
16:18  O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no place.
16:19  Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
16:20  My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto God.
16:21  O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
16:22  When a few years have come, then I shall go the way where I shall not return.