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איוב
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English: New American Standard Bible |
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איוב 16 [Commentary] 
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Then Job answered, |
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"I have heard many such things;
Sorry comforters are you all.
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"Is there no limit to windy words?
Or what plagues you that you answer?
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"I too could speak like you,
If I were in your place.
I could compose words against you
And shake my head at you.
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"I could strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.
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"If I speak, my pain is not lessened,
And if I hold back, what has left me?
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"But now He has exhausted me;
You have laid waste all my company.
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"You have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness;
And my leanness rises up against me,
It testifies to my face.
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"His anger has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with His teeth;
My adversary glares at me.
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"They have gaped at me with their mouth,
They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt;
They have massed themselves against me.
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"God hands me over to ruffians
And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
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"I was at ease, but He shattered me,
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.
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"His arrows surround me.
Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;
He pours out my gall on the ground.
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"He breaks through me with breach after breach;
He runs at me like a warrior.
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"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin
And thrust my horn in the dust.
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"My face is flushed from weeping,
And deep darkness is on my eyelids,
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Although there is no violence in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.
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"O earth, do not cover my blood,
And let there be no resting place for my cry.
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"Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
And my advocate is on high.
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"My friends are my scoffers;
My eye weeps to God.
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"O that a man might plead with God
As a man with his neighbor!
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"For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.
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