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16:1  Then Job answered and said,
16:2  Many times I have heard such things; miserable comforters are ye all.
16:3  Shall vain words have an end? Or what is it that emboldens thee to answer?
16:4  I also could speak as ye do. I wish your soul were in my soul’s stead, that 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 consolation of my lips would assuage the pain.
16:6  Though if I speak, my pain does not cease; and if I forbear to speak, it does not depart from me.
16:7  But now he has made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my company.
16:8  And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.
16:9  His wrath has torn me and has been against me; he gnashed upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpened his eyes upon me.
16:10  They have opened their mouth against me; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
16:11  God has delivered me unto the liar, and in the hands of the wicked he has caused me to tremble.
16:12  I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark.
16:13  His archers compassed me round about; he cleaved my kidneys asunder and did not spare; he poured out my gall upon the ground.
16:14  He broke me with breach upon breach; he ran upon me like a giant.
16:15  I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and put dust over my head.
16:16  My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,
16:17  even though there is no injustice in my hands, and my prayer has been pure.
16:18  O earth, do not cover my blood; and let there be no place where my cry is hidden.
16:19  Certainly my witness is even now in the heavens, and my record is on high.
16:20  Those who dispute with me are my friends, but my eyes shall pour out tears unto God.
16:21  O that a man might dispute with God, as he can with his neighbour!
16:22  When the counted years are come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.