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1. Then Job replied:
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1. Then Job H347 answered H6030 and said H559 ,
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2. "I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
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2. I have heard H8085 many H7227 such things H428 : miserable H5999 comforters H5162 are ye all H3605 .
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3. Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
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3. Shall vain H7307 words H1697 have an end H7093 ? or H176 what H4100 emboldeneth H4834 thee that H3588 thou answerest H6030 ?
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4. I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.
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4. I H595 also H1571 could speak H1696 as ye do : if H3863 your soul H5315 were H3426 in my soul's stead H8478 H5315 , I could heap up H2266 words H4405 against H5921 you , and shake H5128 mine H1119 head H7218 at H5921 you.
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5. But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
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5. But I would strengthen H553 you with H1119 my mouth H6310 , and the moving H5205 of my lips H8193 should assuage H2820 your grief .
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6. "But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking� how much of it goes away?
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6. Though H518 I speak H1696 , my grief H3511 is not H3808 assuaged H2820 : and though I forbear H2308 , what H4100 H4480 am I eased H1980 ?
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7. Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
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7. But H389 now H6258 he hath made me weary H3811 : thou hast made desolate H8074 all H3605 my company H5712 .
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8. You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.
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8. And thou hast filled me with wrath H7059 , which is H1961 a witness H5707 against me : and my leanness H3585 rising up H6965 in me beareth witness H6030 to my face H6440 .
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9. His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.
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9. He teareth H2963 me in his wrath H639 , who hateth H7852 me : he gnasheth H2786 upon H5921 me with his teeth H8127 ; mine enemy H6862 sharpeneth H3913 his eyes H5869 upon me.
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10. People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.
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10. They have gaped H6473 upon H5921 me with their mouth H6310 ; they have smitten H5221 me upon the cheek H3895 reproachfully H2781 ; they have gathered themselves H4390 together H3162 against H5921 me.
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11. God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.
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11. God H410 hath delivered H5462 me to H413 the ungodly H5760 , and turned me over H3399 into H5921 the hands H3027 of the wicked H7563 .
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12. I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
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12. I was H1961 at ease H7961 , but he hath broken me asunder H6565 : he hath also taken H270 me by my neck H6203 , and shaken me to pieces H6327 , and set me up H6965 for his mark H4307 .
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13. his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
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13. His archers H7228 compass me round about H5437 H5921 , he cleaveth H6398 my reins H3629 asunder , and doth not H3808 spare H2550 ; he poureth out H8210 my gall H4845 upon the ground H776 .
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14. He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.
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14. He breaketh H6555 me with breach H6556 upon H5921 H6440 breach H6556 , he runneth H7323 upon H5921 me like a giant H1368 .
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15. I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;
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15. I have sewed H8609 sackcloth H8242 upon H5921 my skin H1539 , and defiled H5953 my horn H7161 in the dust H6083 .
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16. my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,
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16. My face H6440 is foul H2560 with H4480 weeping H1065 , and on H5921 my eyelids H6079 is the shadow of death H6757 ;
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17. although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.
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17. Not H3808 for H5921 any injustice H2555 in mine hands H3709 : also my prayer H8605 is pure H2134 .
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18. "O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.
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18. O earth H776 , cover H3680 not H408 thou my blood H1818 , and let my cry H2201 have H1961 no H408 place H4725 .
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19. Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
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19. Also H1571 now H6258 , behold H2009 , my witness H5707 is in heaven H8064 , and my record H7717 is on high H4791 .
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20. My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
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20. My friends H7453 scorn H3887 me: but mine eye H5869 poureth out H1811 tears unto H413 God H433 .
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21. and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
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21. O that one might plead H3198 for a man H1397 with H5973 God H433 , as a man H1121 H120 pleadeth for his neighbor H7453 !
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22. For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
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22. When H3588 a few H4557 years H8141 are come H857 , then I shall go H1980 the way H734 whence I shall not H3808 return H7725 .
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