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| The Book of Job 16 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Job 16:1 | Then Job answered, and said: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:2 | I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:3 | Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:4 | I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:5 | I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:6 | I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:7 | But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:8 | But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:9 | My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:10 | He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:11 | They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:12 | God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:13 | I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:14 | He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:15 | He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:16 | I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:17 | My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:18 | These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:19 | O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:20 | For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:21 | My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:22 | And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion! | |||||||||||||||
| Job 16:23 | For behold short years pass away and I am walking in a path by which l shall not return. | |||||||||||||||
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