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16:1  Then Job answered and said:
16:2  I have heard this sort of thing many times. Troublesome comforters, all of you!
16:3  Is there no end to windy words? What sickness makes you rattle on?
16:4  I also could talk as you do, were you in my place. I could declaim over you, or wag my head at you;
16:5  I could strengthen you with talk, with mere chatter give relief.
16:6  If I speak, my pain is not relieved; if I stop speaking, nothing changes.
16:7  But now he has exhausted me; you have stunned all my companions.
16:8  You have shriveled me up; it is a witness, my gauntness rises up to testify against me;
16:9  His wrath tears and assails me, he gnashes his teeth against me; My enemy looks daggers at me.
16:10  They gape at me with their mouths; They strike me on the cheek with insults; they are all enlisted against me.
16:11  God has given me over to the impious; into the hands of the wicked he has cast me.
16:12  I was in peace, but he dislodged me, seized me by the neck, dashed me to pieces. He has set me up for a target;
16:13  his arrows strike me from all directions. He pierces my sides without mercy, pours out my gall upon the ground.
16:14  He pierces me, thrust upon thrust, rushes at me like a warrior.
16:15  I have sewn sackcloth on my skin, laid my horn low in the dust.
16:16  My face is inflamed with weeping, darkness covers my eyes,
16:17  Although my hands are free from violence, and my prayer sincere.
16:18  O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let my outcry come to rest!
16:19  Even now my witness is in heaven, my advocate is on high.
16:20  My friends it is who wrong me; before God my eyes shed tears,
16:21  That justice may be done for a mortal with God: as for a man with his neighbor.
16:22  For my years are numbered, and I go the road of no return.