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        • 1. Then Job replied:
            • 2. "I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all!
                • 3. Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
                    • 4. I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
                        • 5. But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
                            • 6. "Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
                                • 7. Surely, O God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
                                    • 8. You have bound me--and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
                                        • 9. God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
                                            • 10. Men open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
                                                • 11. God has turned me over to evil men and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
                                                    • 12. All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
                                                        • 13. his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.
                                                            • 14. Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.
                                                                • 15. "I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
                                                                    • 16. My face is red with weeping, deep shadows ring my eyes;
                                                                        • 17. yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
                                                                            • 18. "O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!
                                                                                • 19. Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
                                                                                    • 20. My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
                                                                                        • 21. on behalf of a man he pleads with God as a man pleads for his friend.
                                                                                            • 22. "Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return.
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