Job 16:1-6

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² “I have heard many such things;
    miserable comforters are you all.
³ Have windy words no limit?
    Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?^(A)
4 I also could talk as you do,
    if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
    and shake my head at you.^(B)
5 I could encourage you with my mouth,
    and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

⁶ “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
    and if I refrain, how much of it leaves me?