1Then Job answered,

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2"I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

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

3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

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

4I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

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

5but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

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

6"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

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

7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

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

8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

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

9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

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

10They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

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

11God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

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

12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

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

13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

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

14He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

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

15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

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

16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

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

17Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

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

18"Earth, do not cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

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

19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

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

20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

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

21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

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

22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.

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