Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You
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Then Job answered and said:
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Shall 3windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
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I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and 4shake my head at you.
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I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
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"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
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And he has shriveled me up, which is 6a witness against me, and my 7leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.
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He has 8torn me in his wrath 9and hated me; he has 10gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
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Men have 11gaped at me with their mouth; they have 12struck me insolently on the cheek; they 13mass themselves together against me.
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God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
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I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his 14target;
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his 15archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys 16and does not spare; he 17pours out my gall on the ground.
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My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is 23deep darkness,
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although there is no 24violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
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My friends 29scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
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For when a few years have come I shall go the way 31from which I shall not return.
Herramientas de Estudio para Job 16
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