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Job 16
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English GNT (Good News Translation)
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I have heard words like that before; the comfort you give is only torment.
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Are you going to keep on talking forever? Do you always have to have the last word?
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If you were in my place and I in yours, I could say everything you are saying. I could shake my head wisely and drown you with a flood of words.
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I could strengthen you with advice and keep talking to comfort you.
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But nothing I say helps, and being silent does not calm my pain.
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You have worn me out, God; you have let my family be killed.
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You have seized me; you are my enemy. I am skin and bones, and people take that as proof of my guilt.
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In anger God tears me limb from limb; he glares at me with hate.
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People sneer at me; they crowd around me and slap my face.
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God has handed me over to evil people.
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I was living in peace, but God took me by the throat and battered me and crushed me. God uses me for target practice
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and shoots arrows at me from every side— arrows that pierce and wound me; and even then he shows no pity.
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He wounds me again and again; he attacks like a soldier gone mad with hate.
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I mourn and wear clothes made of sackcloth, and I sit here in the dust defeated.
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I have cried until my face is red, and my eyes are swollen and circled with shadows,
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but I am not guilty of any violence, and my prayer to God is sincere.
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O Earth, don't hide the wrongs done to me! Don't let my call for justice be silenced!
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There is someone in heaven to stand up for me and take my side.
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My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.
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I want someone to plead with God for me, as one pleads for a friend.
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My years are passing now, and I walk the road of no return.
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