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Job Chapter 16

Geneva1599
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Job 16

1Bvt Iob answered, and said,
2I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 13:4, Job 13:5, Job 13:4, Job 13:5, Job 19:2
3Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?
Job 6:26, Job 6:26, Job 15:2, Job 15:2, Titus 2:8
4I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,
Psalms 109:25, Psalms 109:25, Psalms 22:7, Psalms 22:7, Lamentations 2:15
5But I woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.
Galatians 6:1, Galatians 6:1, Job 6:14, Proverbs 27:9, Proverbs 27:17
6Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?
Job 10:1, Job 10:1, Psalms 88:15, Psalms 88:18, Psalms 88:15
7But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,
Job 7:3, Job 7:3, Job 1:15, Job 1:19, Job 1:15
8And hast made me full of wrinkles which is a witnesse thereof, and my leannes ryseth vp in me, testifying the same in my face.
Job 10:17, Job 10:17, Ruth 1:21, Job 19:20, Ruth 1:21
9His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.
Psalms 35:16, Lamentations 2:16, Job 13:24, Psalms 35:16, Lamentations 2:16
10They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.
Psalms 35:15, Psalms 22:13, Psalms 35:15, Psalms 22:13, Lamentations 3:30
11God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.
Psalms 31:8, Psalms 27:12, Psalms 31:8, Psalms 27:12, Romans 11:32
12I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.
Lamentations 3:11, Lamentations 3:12, Job 7:20, Lamentations 3:11, Lamentations 3:12
13His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, and powreth my gall vpon the ground.
Job 6:4, Job 20:25, Job 6:4, Job 20:25, Lamentations 2:11
14He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.
Psalms 42:7, Judges 15:8, Joel 2:7, Job 9:17, Lamentations 3:3
15I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.
Genesis 37:34, Genesis 37:34, Psalms 7:5, Psalms 7:5, Isaiah 22:12
16My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,
Mark 14:34, Mark 14:34, Psalms 69:3, Psalms 32:3, Psalms 31:9
17Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure.
Proverbs 15:8, Proverbs 15:8, Job 8:5, Job 8:6, Job 27:6
18O earth, couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no place.
Isaiah 26:21, Ezekiel 24:7, Isaiah 26:21, Ezekiel 24:7, Psalms 66:18
19For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.
Romans 1:9, Romans 1:9, 2 Corinthians 11:31, 1 Thessalonians 2:10, Genesis 31:50
20My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
Psalms 142:2, Hebrews 5:7, Psalms 142:2, Hebrews 5:7, Luke 6:11
21Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
Ecclesiastes 6:10, Ecclesiastes 6:10, Romans 9:20, Isaiah 45:9, Romans 9:20
22For the yeeres accounted come, and I shall go the way, whence I shall not returne.
Job 14:10, Job 14:10, Job 14:14, Job 14:5, Job 7:9

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