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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Mortals, born of woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="content">are of few days and full of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They spring up like flowers and wither away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="content">like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do you fix your eye on them?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="content">Will you bring them</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:3 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">me</span></span></span><span class="content"> before you for judgment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who can bring what is pure from the impure?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="content">No one!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">A person&#8217;s days are determined;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">you have decreed the number of his months</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">and have set limits he cannot exceed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So look away from him and let him alone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="content">till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;At least there is hope for a tree:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">If it is cut down, it will sprout again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">and its new shoots will not fail.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Its roots may grow old in the ground</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="content">and its stump die in the soil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">yet at the scent of water it will bud</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="content">and put forth shoots like a plant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But a man dies and is laid low;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="content">he breathes his last and is no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As the water of a lake dries up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="content">or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">so he lies down and does not rise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">till the heavens are no more, people will not awake</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">or be roused from their sleep.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If only you would hide me in the grave</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">and conceal me till your anger has passed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">If only you would set me a time</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">and then remember me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If someone dies, will they live again?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">All the days of my hard service</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">I will wait for my renewal</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">release</span></span></span><span class="content"> to come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You will call and I will answer you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="content">you will long for the creature your hands have made.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Surely then you will count my steps</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="content">but not keep track of my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My offenses will be sealed up in a bag;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="content">you will cover over my sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;But as a mountain erodes and crumbles</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="content">and as a rock is moved from its place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">as water wears away stones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">and torrents wash away the soil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">so you destroy a person&#8217;s hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You overpower them once for all, and they are gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="content">you change their countenance and send them away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">If their children are honored, they do not know it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="content">if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They feel but the pain of their own bodies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.14.22"><span class="content">and mourn only for themselves.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Would a wise person answer with empty notions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">or fill their belly with the hot east wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Would they argue with useless words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">with speeches that have no value?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But you even undermine piety</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">and hinder devotion to God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Your sin prompts your mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">you adopt the tongue of the crafty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your own mouth condemns you, not mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">your own lips testify against you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are you the first man ever born?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">Were you brought forth before the hills?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do you listen in on God&#8217;s council?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">What do you know that we do not know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">What insights do you have that we do not have?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The gray-haired and the aged are on our side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">men even older than your father.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Are God&#8217;s consolations not enough for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">words spoken gently to you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why has your heart carried you away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">and why do your eyes flash,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">so that you vent your rage against God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">and pour out such words from your mouth?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;What are mortals, that they could be pure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If God places no trust in his holy ones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">who drink up evil like water!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me and I will explain to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">let me tell you what I have seen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">what the wise have declared,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">hiding nothing received from their ancestors</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">(to whom alone the land was given</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">when no foreigners moved among them):</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">All his days the wicked man suffers torment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Terrifying sounds fill his ears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">when all seems well, marauders attack him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">he is marked for the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He wanders about for food like a vulture;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">he knows the day of darkness is at hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Distress and anguish fill him with terror;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">because he shakes his fist at God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">and vaunts himself against the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">defiantly charging against him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">with a thick, strong shield.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though his face is covered with fat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">and his waist bulges with flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">he will inhabit ruined towns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">and houses where no one lives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">houses crumbling to rubble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">nor will his possessions spread over the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He will not escape the darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">a flame will wither his shoots,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">and the breath of God&#8217;s mouth will carry him away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">for he will get nothing in return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Before his time he will wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">and his branches will not flourish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For the company of the godless will be barren,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They conceive trouble and give birth to evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="content">their womb fashions deceit.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.16.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have heard many things like these;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.16.2"><span class="content">you are miserable comforters, all of you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Will your long-winded speeches never end?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.16.3"><span class="content">What ails you that you keep on arguing?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I also could speak like you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">if you were in my place;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">I could make fine speeches against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">and shake my head at you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But my mouth would encourage you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"><span class="content">comfort from my lips would bring you relief.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.16.6"><span class="content">and if I refrain, it does not go away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Surely, God, you have worn me out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.16.7"><span class="content">you have devastated my entire household.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have shriveled me up&#8212;and it has become a witness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.16.8"><span class="content">my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">God assails me and tears me in his anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="content">and gnashes his teeth at me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="content">my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">People open their mouths to jeer at me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="content">they strike my cheek in scorn</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="content">and unite together against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">God has turned me over to the ungodly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.16.11"><span class="content">and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">All was well with me, but he shattered me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="content">he seized me by the neck and crushed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="content">He has made me his target;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">his archers surround me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="content">Without pity, he pierces my kidneys</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="content">and spills my gall on the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Again and again he bursts upon me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"><span class="content">he rushes at me like a warrior.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have sewed sackcloth over my skin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.16.15"><span class="content">and buried my brow in the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">My face is red with weeping,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.16.16"><span class="content">dark shadows ring my eyes;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">yet my hands have been free of violence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"><span class="content">and my prayer is pure.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Earth, do not cover my blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.16.18"><span class="content">may my cry never be laid to rest!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Even now my witness is in heaven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.16.19"><span class="content">my advocate is on high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My intercessor is my friend</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">My friends treat me with scorn</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.16.20"><span class="content">as my eyes pour out tears to God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">on behalf of a man he pleads with God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"><span class="content">as one pleads for a friend.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Only a few years will pass</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.16.22"><span class="content">before I take the path of no return.</span></span></div>
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