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Job 16:1--17:16

16:1

Then Job
<0347>

answered
<06030> (8799)

and said
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16:2

I have heard
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many such things
<07227>_:

miserable
<05999>

comforters
<05162> (8764)

[are] ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}

16:3

Shall vain
<07307>

words
<01697>

have an end
<07093>_?

or what emboldeneth
<04834> (8686)

thee that thou answerest
<06030> (8799)_?

{vain...: Heb. words of wind}

16:4

I also could speak
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as ye [do]: if
<03863>

your soul
<05315>

were
<03426>

in my soul's
<05315>

stead, I could heap up
<02266> (8686)

words
<04405>

against you, and shake
<05128> (8686)

mine head
<07218>

at
<01119>

you.

16:5

[But] I would strengthen
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you with
<01119>

my mouth
<06310>_,

and the moving
<05205>

of my lips
<08193>

should asswage
<02820> (8799)

[your grief].

16:6

Though I speak
<01696> (8762)_,

my grief
<03511>

is not asswaged
<02820> (8735)_:

and [though] I forbear
<02308> (8799)_,

what am I eased
<01980> (8799)_?

{what...: Heb. what goeth from me?}

16:7

But now he hath made me weary
<03811> (8689)_:

thou hast made desolate
<08074> (8689)

all my company
<05712>_.

16:8

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles
<07059> (8799)_,

[which] is a witness
<05707>

[against me]: and my leanness
<03585>

rising up
<06965> (8799)

in me beareth witness
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to my face
<06440>_.

16:9

He teareth
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[me] in his wrath
<0639>_,

who hateth
<07852> (8799)

me: he gnasheth
<02786> (8804)

upon me with his teeth
<08127>_;

mine enemy
<06862>

sharpeneth
<03913> (8799)

his eyes
<05869>

upon me.

16:10

They have gaped
<06473> (8804)

upon me with their mouth
<06310>_;

they have smitten
<05221> (8689)

me upon the cheek
<03895>

reproachfully
<02781>_;

they have gathered
<04390> (8691)

themselves together
<03162>

against me.

16:11

God
<0410>

hath delivered
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me to the ungodly
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and turned me over
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into the hands
<03027>

of the wicked
<07563>_.

{hath...: Heb. hath shut me up}

16:12

I was at ease
<07961>_,

but he hath broken me asunder
<06565> (8770)_:

he hath also taken
<0270> (8804)

[me] by my neck
<06203>_,

and shaken me to pieces
<06327> (8770)_,

and set me up
<06965> (8686)

for his mark
<04307>_.

16:13

His archers
<07228>

compass me round about
<05437> (8799)_,

he cleaveth
<06398> (0)

my reins
<03629>

asunder
<06398> (8762)_,

and doth not spare
<02550> (8799)_;

he poureth out
<08210> (8799)

my gall
<04845>

upon the ground
<0776>_.

16:14

He breaketh
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me with breach
<06556>

upon
<06440>

breach
<06556>_,

he runneth
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upon me like a giant
<01368>_.

16:15

I have sewed
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sackcloth
<08242>

upon my skin
<01539>_,

and defiled
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my horn
<07161>

in the dust
<06083>_.

16:16

My face
<06440>

is foul
<02560> (8777)

with weeping
<01065>_,

and on my eyelids
<06079>

[is] the shadow of death
<06757>_;

16:17

Not for [any] injustice
<02555>

in mine hands
<03709>_:

also my prayer
<08605>

[is] pure
<02134>_.

16:18

O earth
<0776>_,

cover
<03680> (8762)

not thou my blood
<01818>_,

and let my cry
<02201>

have no place
<04725>_.

16:19

Also now, behold, my witness
<05707>

[is] in heaven
<08064>_,

and my record
<07717>

[is] on high
<04791>_.

{on high: Heb. in the high places}

16:20

My friends
<07453>

scorn
<03887> (8688)

me: [but] mine eye
<05869>

poureth out
<01811> (8804)

[tears] unto God
<0433>_.

{scorn me: Heb. are my scorners}

16:21

O that one might plead
<03198> (8686)

for a man
<01397>

with God
<0433>_,

as a man
<0120>

[pleadeth] for his neighbour
<01121> <07453>_!

{neighbour: or, friend}

16:22

When a few
<04557>

years
<08141>

are come
<0857> (8799)_,

then I shall go
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the way
<0734>

[whence] I shall not return
<07725> (8799)_.

{a few...: Heb. years of number}

17:1

My breath
<07307>

is corrupt
<02254> (8795)_,

my days
<03117>

are extinct
<02193> (8738)_,

the graves
<06913>

[are ready] for me. {breath...: or, spirit is spent}

17:2

[Are there] not mockers
<02049>

with me? and doth not mine eye
<05869>

continue
<03885> (8799)

in their provocation
<04784> (8687)_?

{continue: Heb. lodge}

17:3

Lay down
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now, put me in a surety
<06148> (8798)

with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike
<08628> (8735)

hands
<03027>

with me?

17:4

For thou hast hid
<06845> (8804)

their heart
<03820>

from understanding
<07922>_:

therefore shalt thou not exalt
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[them].

17:5

He that speaketh
<05046> (8686)

flattery
<02506>

to [his] friends
<07453>_,

even the eyes
<05869>

of his children
<01121>

shall fail
<03615> (8799)_.

17:6

He hath made
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me also a byword
<04914>

of the people
<05971>_;

and aforetime
<06440>

I was as a tabret
<08611>_.

{aforetime: or, before them}

17:7

Mine eye
<05869>

also is dim
<03543> (8799)

by reason of sorrow
<03708>_,

and all my members
<03338>

[are] as a shadow
<06738>_.

{my members: or, my thoughts}

17:8

Upright
<03477>

[men] shall be astonied
<08074> (8799)

at this, and the innocent
<05355>

shall stir up
<05782> (8709)

himself against the hypocrite
<02611>_.

17:9

The righteous
<06662>

also shall hold
<0270> (8799)

on his way
<01870>_,

and he that hath clean
<02890>

hands
<03027>

shall be
<03254> (8686)

stronger and stronger
<0555>_.

{be...: Heb. add strength}

17:10

But
<0199>

as for you all, do ye return
<07725> (8799)_,

and come now
<0935> (8798)_:

for I cannot find
<04672> (8799)

[one] wise
<02450>

[man] among you.

17:11

My days
<03117>

are past
<05674> (8804)_,

my purposes
<02154>

are broken off
<05423> (8738)_,

[even] the thoughts
<04180>

of my heart
<03824>_.

{the thoughts: Heb. the possessions}

17:12

They change
<07760> (8799)

the night
<03915>

into day
<03117>_:

the light
<0216>

[is] short
<07138>

because
<06440>

of darkness
<02822>_.

{short: Heb. near}

17:13

If I wait
<06960> (8762)_,

the grave
<07585>

[is] mine house
<01004>_:

I have made
<07502> (8765)

my bed
<03326>

in the darkness
<02822>_.

17:14

I have said
<07121> (8804)

to corruption
<07845>_,

Thou [art] my father
<01>_:

to the worm
<07415>_,

[Thou art] my mother
<0517>_,

and my sister
<0269>_.

{said: Heb. cried, or, called}

17:15

And where [is] now
<0645>

my hope
<08615>_?

as for my hope
<08615>_,

who shall see
<07789> (8799)

it?

17:16

They shall go down
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to the bars
<0905>

of the pit
<07585>_,

when [our] rest
<05183>

together
<03162>

[is] in the dust
<06083>_.