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The Second Response: The Miserable Comforters and the Heavenly Witness
Then Iyob answered and said,
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I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
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Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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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.
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The Promise of True Comfort
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
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Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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The Desolation of the Perimeter
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
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The Strike of the Adversary
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
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The Assembly of the Wicked
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
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Delivered to the Ungodly
El hath delivered me to the wicked, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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The Target of the Archers
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
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His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
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He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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The Garment of Humiliation
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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The Purity of the Prayer
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
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The Cry of the Blood
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
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The Witness in the Celestial Court
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
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My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto Eloah.
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The Plea for the Advocate
O that one might plead for a man with Eloah, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
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The Appointed Departure
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.