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16 Then Job answered,

“I have heard many such things.
    You are all miserable comforters!
Shall vain words have an end?
    Or what provokes you that you answer?
I also could speak as you do.
    If your soul were in my soul’s place,
    I could join words together against you,
    and shake my head at you,
but I would strengthen you with my mouth.
    The solace of my lips would relieve you.

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided.
    Though I forbear, what am I eased?

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16 Then Job answered and said,

I have heard many such things:
[a]Miserable comforters are ye all.
Shall [b]vain words have an end?
Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
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.
But I would strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged;
And though I forbear, [c]what am I eased?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:2 Or, Wearisome
  2. Job 16:3 Hebrew words of wind.
  3. Job 16:6 Hebrew what departeth from me?