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16:1  And Job answered and said,
16:2  I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
16:3  Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
16:4  I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
16:5  But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage your pain.
16:6  If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
16:7  But now he hath made me weary; ... thou hast made desolate all my family;
16:8  Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.
16:9  His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; as mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.
16:10  They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.
16:11  ï¿½God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.
16:12  I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
16:13  His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
16:14  He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.
16:15  I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.
16:16  My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
16:17  Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
16:18  O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!
16:19  Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.
16:20  My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.
16:21  Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!
16:22  For years few in number shall pass, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.