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16:1  Then Job answered and said:
16:2  “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are ye all!
16:3  Shall vain words have an end? Or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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.
16:5  But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.
16:6  “Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased?
16:7  But now He hath 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 beareth witness to my face.
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.
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 hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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.
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.
16:14  He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a giant.
16:15  “I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16:16  My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,
16:17  not for any injustice in mine hands; also my prayer is pure.
16:18  “O earth, cover not thou 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 mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
16:21  O, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!
16:22  When a few years have come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.