Job 16:1-6
21st Century King James Version
16 Then Job answered and said:
2 “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are ye all!
3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.
6 “Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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Job 16:1-6
American Standard Version
16 Then Job answered and said,
2 I have heard many such things:
[a]Miserable comforters are ye all.
3 Shall [b]vain words have an end?
Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye do;
If your soul were in my soul’s stead,
I could join words together against you,
And shake my head at you.
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.
6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged;
And though I forbear, [c]what am I eased?
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