Though I speak, my sorrow [a]cannot be assuaged: though I cease, what release have I?

But now [b]he maketh me weary: O God, thou hast made all my [c]congregation desolate,

And hast made me full of [d]wrinkles which is a witness thereof, and my leanness riseth up in me, testifying the same in my face.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:6 If they would say, Why dost thou not then comfort thyself? he answereth, that the judgments of God are more heavy than he is able to assuage either by words or silence.
  2. Job 16:7 Meaning, God.
  3. Job 16:7 That is, destroyed most of my family.
  4. Job 16:8 In token of sorrow and grief.

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