1Then Job answered, and said:

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2I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.

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Job 13:4, Job 13:5, Job 13:4, Job 13:5, Job 19:2

3Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?

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Job 6:26, Job 6:26, Job 15:2, Job 15:2, Titus 2:8

4I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.

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Psalms 109:25, Psalms 109:25, Psalms 22:7, Psalms 22:7, Lamentations 2:15

5I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.

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Galatians 6:1, Galatians 6:1, Job 6:14, Proverbs 27:9, Proverbs 27:17

6I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.

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Job 10:1, Job 10:1, Psalms 88:15, Psalms 88:18, Psalms 88:15

7But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.

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Job 7:3, Job 7:3, Job 1:15, Job 1:19, Job 1:15

8But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.

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Job 10:17, Job 10:17, Ruth 1:21, Job 19:20, Ruth 1:21

9My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.

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Psalms 35:16, Lamentations 2:16, Job 13:24, Psalms 35:16, Lamentations 2:16

10He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes.

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Psalms 35:15, Psalms 22:13, Psalms 35:15, Psalms 22:13, Lamentations 3:30

11They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.

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Psalms 31:8, Psalms 27:12, Psalms 31:8, Psalms 27:12, Romans 11:32

12God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

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Lamentations 3:11, Lamentations 3:12, Job 7:20, Lamentations 3:11, Lamentations 3:12

13I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark.

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Job 6:4, Job 20:25, Job 6:4, Job 20:25, Lamentations 2:11

14He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth,

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Psalms 42:7, Judges 15:8, Joel 2:7, Job 9:17, Lamentations 3:3

15He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.

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Genesis 37:34, Genesis 37:34, Psalms 7:5, Psalms 7:5, Isaiah 22:12

16I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.

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Mark 14:34, Mark 14:34, Psalms 69:3, Psalms 32:3, Psalms 31:9

17My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.

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Proverbs 15:8, Proverbs 15:8, Job 8:5, Job 8:6, Job 27:6

18These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.

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Isaiah 26:21, Ezekiel 24:7, Isaiah 26:21, Ezekiel 24:7, Psalms 66:18

19O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.

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Romans 1:9, Romans 1:9, 2 Corinthians 11:31, 1 Thessalonians 2:10, Genesis 31:50

20For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.

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Psalms 142:2, Hebrews 5:7, Psalms 142:2, Hebrews 5:7, Luke 6:11

21My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.

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Ecclesiastes 6:10, Ecclesiastes 6:10, Romans 9:20, Isaiah 45:9, Romans 9:20

22And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!

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Job 14:10, Job 14:10, Job 14:14, Job 14:5, Job 7:9

23For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.

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