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Job Chapter 16

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Job 16 opens with Job calling his friends miserable comforters whose vain words have no end, and he challenges them to imagine how they would feel in his place. He describes how God has worn him out, shattered him with terrors, and made him a byword, while his relatives and acquaintances have failed him. He concludes with a poignant cry that though his friends scorn him, his eye pours out tears to God, and he longs for someone to plead for a man with God as one pleads for a neighbor, knowing that soon he will go the way of no return.

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(1) Then Job answered and said,
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Job 1:5Job 42:8

(2) I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
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Job 6:6Job 6:25Job 11:2Job 11:3Job 13:5Job 19:2Job 19:3Job 26:2Job 26:3James 1:19Job 13:4Psalms 69:26

(3) Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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Job 6:26Job 8:2Job 15:2Job 20:3Job 32:3Job 32:4Job 32:5Job 32:6Matthew 22:46Titus 1:11Titus 2:8

(4) 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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Job 6:2Job 6:3Job 6:4Job 6:5Job 6:14Matthew 7:12Romans 12:15I Corinthians 12:26Job 11:2Job 35:16Proverbs 10:19Ecclesiastes 10:14

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Genesis 31:52

(5) But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
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Job 4:3Job 4:4Job 6:14Job 29:25Psalms 27:14Proverbs 27:9Proverbs 27:17Isaiah 35:3Isaiah 35:4Galatians 6:1

(6) Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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Job 10:1Psalms 77:1Psalms 77:2Psalms 77:3Psalms 77:4Psalms 77:5Psalms 77:6Psalms 77:7Psalms 77:8Psalms 77:9Psalms 88:15Psalms 88:16

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Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8Joshua 17:18Job 20:12Psalms 27:3

(7) But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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Job 3:17Job 7:3Job 7:16Job 10:1Psalms 6:6Psalms 6:7Proverbs 3:11Proverbs 3:12Isaiah 50:4Micah 6:13Job 1:15Job 1:16

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Jeremiah 12:11Ezekiel 29:12

(8) 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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Job 10:17Ruth 1:21Ephesians 5:27Psalms 106:15Isaiah 10:16Isaiah 24:16

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I Samuel 12:5I John 5:9John 5:32John 8:18Genesis 31:52Deuteronomy 19:18

(9) 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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Job 10:16Job 10:17Job 18:4Psalms 50:22Lamentations 3:10Hosea 5:14Psalms 35:16Psalms 37:12Lamentations 2:16Job 13:24Job 13:27Job 19:11

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Joel 1:6Mark 9:18

(10) 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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Psalms 22:13Psalms 22:16Psalms 22:17Psalms 35:21Luke 23:35Luke 23:36I Kings 22:24II Chronicles 18:23Isaiah 50:6Lamentations 3:30Micah 5:1Matthew 26:67

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(11) God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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I Samuel 24:18Psalms 31:8Romans 11:32Job 1:13Job 1:14Job 1:15Job 1:16Job 1:17Job 1:18Job 1:19Job 2:7Psalms 7:14

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Jude 1:15

(12) 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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Job 1:2Job 1:3Job 3:26Job 29:3Job 29:18Job 29:19Job 4:10Psalms 44:19Lamentations 3:4Matthew 21:44Job 15:26Romans 16:4

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Isaiah 8:9Jeremiah 50:2Ecclesiastes 12:6Mark 5:4Jeremiah 51:22Jeremiah 51:23

(13) 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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Job 6:4Genesis 49:23Psalms 7:12Psalms 7:13Job 19:27Lamentations 3:13Job 6:10Deuteronomy 29:20Ezekiel 5:11Romans 8:32II Peter 2:5Job 20:25

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II Chronicles 4:2II Samuel 14:14Isaiah 28:24Ezekiel 41:16Habakkuk 1:4I Kings 6:5

(14) He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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Lamentations 3:3Lamentations 3:4Lamentations 3:5Judges 15:8Psalms 42:7

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Leviticus 24:20

(15) I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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I Kings 21:27Isaiah 22:12Job 30:19I Samuel 2:10Psalms 7:5Psalms 75:5Psalms 75:10

(16) My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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Psalms 6:6Psalms 6:7Psalms 31:9Psalms 32:3Psalms 69:3Psalms 102:3Psalms 102:4Psalms 102:5Psalms 102:9Isaiah 52:14Lamentations 1:16Job 17:7

(17) Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
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Job 11:14Job 15:20Job 15:34Job 21:27Job 21:28Job 22:5Job 22:6Job 22:7Job 22:8Job 22:9Job 27:6Job 27:7

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Titus 1:15

(18) O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
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Jeremiah 22:29Genesis 4:11Nehemiah 4:5Isaiah 26:21Ezekiel 24:7Job 27:9Psalms 66:18Psalms 66:19Isaiah 1:15Isaiah 58:9Isaiah 58:10James 4:3

(19) Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
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I Samuel 12:5Romans 1:9Romans 9:1II Corinthians 1:23II Corinthians 11:31I Thessalonians 2:10Job 25:2Psalms 113:5

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I Samuel 12:5I John 5:9

(20) My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
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Job 16:4Job 12:4Job 12:5Job 17:2Psalms 109:4Psalms 142:2Hosea 12:4Hosea 12:5Luke 6:11Luke 6:12Hebrews 5:7

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Luke 6:42Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34

(21) O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
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Job 9:34Job 9:35Job 13:3Job 13:22Job 23:3Job 23:4Job 23:5Job 23:6Job 23:7Job 31:35Job 40:1Job 40:2

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Judges 6:31

(22) When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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Job 14:5Job 14:14Job 7:9Job 7:10Job 14:10Ecclesiastes 12:5

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

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