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Job 16
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English God's Word - GW 1995
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Then Job replied {to his friends},
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"I have heard many things like this before. You are all pathetic at comforting me.
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Will {your} long-winded speeches never end? What disturbs you that you keep on answering {me}?
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I, too, could speak like you if we could trade places. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.
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I could encourage you with my mouth, and my quivering lips could ease {your pain}.
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If I speak, my pain is not eased. If I stop talking, how much of it will go away?
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"But now, God has worn me out. You, {God,} have destroyed everyone who supports me.
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You have shriveled me up, which itself is a witness {against me}. My frail body rises up and testifies against me.
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"God's anger tore me {apart} and attacked me. He gritted his teeth at me. My opponent looked sharply at me.
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People gaped at me with wide-open mouths. In scorn they slapped my cheeks. They united against me.
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God handed me over to unjust people and threw me into the hands of wicked people.
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I was at ease, and he shattered me. He grabbed me by the back of the neck and smashed {my skull}. He set me up as his target,
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and his archers surrounded me. He slashes open my kidneys without mercy and spills my blood on the ground.
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He inflicts wound after wound on me. He lunges at me like a warrior.
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"I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have thrown my strength in the dust.
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My face is red from crying, and dark shadows encircle my eyes,
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although my hands have done nothing violent, and my prayer is sincere.
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"Earth, don't cover my blood. Don't ever let my cry {for justice} be stopped.
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Even now, look! My witness is in heaven, and the one who testifies for me is above,
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the spokesman for my thoughts. My eyes drip {with tears} to God
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because in a few short years I will take the path of no return.
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But my witness will plead for a human in front of God. The Son of Man will plead for his friend!
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