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Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth,
and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.(A)

If I speak, my suffering is not relieved,
and if I hold back, does any of it leave me?
Surely he[a] has now exhausted me.
You have devastated my entire family.

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  1. 16:7 Or it

But my mouth would encourage you;
    comfort(A) from my lips would bring you relief.(B)

“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;
    and if I refrain, it does not go away.(C)
Surely, God, you have worn me out;(D)
    you have devastated my entire household.(E)

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But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

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