15 “I have sewed sackcloth(A) over my skin
    and buried my brow in the dust.(B)
16 My face is red with weeping,(C)
    dark shadows ring my eyes;(D)
17 yet my hands have been free of violence(E)
    and my prayer is pure.(F)

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15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;
I have buried my strength[a] in the dust.(A)
16 My face has grown red with weeping,
and darkness(B) covers my eyes,
17 although my hands are free from violence(C)
and my prayer is pure.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:15 Lit horn

15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

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