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Job 16:2-11 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

2. I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.

3. Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?

4. I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.

5. I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.

6. I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.

7. But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me.

8. But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.

9. My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.

10. He has gathered together his fury towards me, and, threatening me, he has roared against me with his teeth; my enemy has beheld me with terrible eyes.

11. They have opened their mouths against me, and, reproaching me, they have struck me on the cheek; they are nourished by my sufferings.

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