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Then Iyov answered and said:
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“I have heard many things like these. All of you are comforters of trouble.
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Is there an end to words of wind? Or what provokes you, that you answer?
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I also could speak like you if only your being were in place of my being. I could join words against you and shake my head over you.
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I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the movement of my lips would restrain your pain.
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If I speak, my pain is not restrained; and if I cease, what goes away from me?
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But now He has wearied me; You have made all my assembly desolate.
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You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness rises against me and answers to my face.
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His anger tears and opposes me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
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They open their mouths against me; with reproach they strike my cheek. Together they fill themselves against me.
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El delivers me to the unjust and throws me into the hands of the wicked.
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I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He set me up as His mark.
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His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys and does not spare; He pours my gall upon the earth.
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He breaks me—breach upon breach; He runs against me like a mighty one.
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I sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn into the dust.
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My face is reddened from weeping, and death-shadow is upon my eyelids,
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though no violence is in my palms, and my prayer is pure.
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Earth, do not cover my blood, and let there be no place for my cry.
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Even now, see, my Witness is in the heavens, and the One testifying for me is in the heights.
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My companions mock me; my eye pours tears toward Eloah,
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that He might judge for a mighty one with Eloah as a son of Adam judges for his companion.
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For years few in number shall come, and I shall walk a path from which I do not return.