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Job 16:5-15 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

5. I could strengthen you with talk,with mere chatter give relief.

6. If I speak, my pain is not relieved;if I stop speaking, nothing changes.

7. But now he has exhausted me;you have stunned all my companions.

8. You have shriveled me up; it is a witness,my gauntness rises up to testify against me;

9. His wrath tears and assails me,he gnashes his teeth against me;My enemy looks daggers at me.

10. They gape at me with their mouths;They strike me on the cheek with insults;they are all enlisted against me.

11. God has given me over to the impious;into the hands of the wicked he has cast me.

12. I was in peace, but he dislodged me,seized me by the neck, dashed me to pieces.He has set me up for a target;

13. his arrows strike me from all directions.He pierces my sides without mercy,pours out my gall upon the ground.

14. He pierces me, thrust upon thrust,rushes at me like a warrior.

15. I have sewn sackcloth on my skin,laid my horn low in the dust.

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