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1. Then Job answered,
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1. Then Job H347 answered H6030 and said H559 ,
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2. "I have heard many such things. All of you bring trouble instead of comfort.
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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. Is there no end to your words that are full of wind? What is your problem that you keep on talking?
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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 I were in your place. I could put words together against you, and 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. I could give you strength with my mouth. I could speak words of comfort and make your pain less.
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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. "If I speak, my pain is not made less. And if I keep quiet, it does not leave me.
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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. But now God has taken away my strength. He has taken away all my family.
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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. He has made me dry up, and this speaks against me. The wasting away of my body rises up against me. It speaks against me to my face.
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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 hated me. He has ground His teeth at me. The one against me looks hard at 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. Men have looked at me with their mouths open. They have hit me on the face with anger. They have gathered 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 gives me over to bad men. He throws me into the hands of the sinful.
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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 living in comfort, but He has taken that away. He has taken hold of me by the neck and shaken me to pieces. He has set me up for something to shoot at.
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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 arrows are all around me. He cuts my kidneys open without pity. He pours the bitter insides 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 hurts me again and again. He runs at me like a man of war.
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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 cloth made from hair over my skin, and have laid my hope 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 red from crying, and darkness is over my eyes.
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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. But my hands have done nothing bad, 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. Let my cry have no place to rest.
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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. See, even now there is One Who sees me from heaven. The One Who speaks for me 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 friends make fun of me. 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. If only a man could give reasons to God, as a man does for his neighbor!
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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. In a few years I will go the way that I cannot 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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