1But Job answered and said:

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2Of such things as these I have heard enough! Miserable comforters are ye all!

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

3Will there ever be an end to words of wind? What stirreth thee up, that thou answerest?

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

4I also might speak like you, If ye were now in my place; I might string together words 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

5I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the consolation of my lips should sustain you.

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

6If I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And if I forbear, it doth not leave me.

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

7For now He hath quite exhausted me; Thou hast desolated all my house!

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

8Thou hast seized hold of me, and this is a witness against me; My leanness riseth up and testifieth against me to my face.

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

9His anger teareth my flesh, and pursueth me; He gnasheth upon me with his teeth; My adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

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

10They gape for me with their mouths; In scorn they smite me on the cheek; With one consent they assemble against me.

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

11God hath given me a prey to the unrighteous, And delivered 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, but he hath crushed me; He hath seized me by the neck, and dashed me in pieces; He hath set me up for his mark.

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

13His archers encompass me around; He pierceth my reins, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

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

14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He rusheth upon me like a warrior.

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

15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And thrust my horn into 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, And upon my eyelids is deathlike darkness.

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

17Yet is there no injustice in my bands. And my prayer hath been pure.

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

18O earth! cover not thou my blood, And let there be no hiding-place for my cry!

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

19Yet even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he who knoweth 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 have me in derision, But my eye poureth out tears unto God.

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

21O that one might contend for a man with God, As a man contendeth 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 shall have passed, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

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