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Job replies to Eliphaz[a]

16 Then Job replied. This is what he said:

‘I have heard all these things before.
You are not making my troubles any better.
    You are making them worse!
Please stop speaking useless words.
    Why do you talk to me like that?

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Footnotes

  1. 16:1 Now Job replies to his friends. Nothing that they have said has helped him. Job understands that God punishes bad people. He still thinks that God has not been fair to punish him. But he begins to think that perhaps God will help him. See Job 16:19; 17:3.