Job 16:1-11

1. 1 Then Job answered and said,

2. 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

3. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

4. 4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

5. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

6. 6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

7. 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

8. 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

9. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

10. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

11. 11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

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