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Job 16

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

16:1

But Job answered and said,

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16:2

I have heard many such things: poor comforters are ye all.

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What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder thee from answering?

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I also will speak as ye [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead, then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you.

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And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.

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16:6

For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?

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16:7

But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and thou hast laid hold of me.

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16:8

My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.

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In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.

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16:10

He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has smitten me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.

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16:11

For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.

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16:12

When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.

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16:13

They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground.

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They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might.

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They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.

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16:16

My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.

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Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

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16:18

Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.

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16:19

And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

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16:20

Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.

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16:21

Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbour!

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16:22

But my years are numbered and [their end] come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.

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