Verse 2
Job 16:2
American Standard Version Byzantine Text
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I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
Original Language Text
hebrew
שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי כְ/אֵ֣לֶּה רַבּ֑וֹת מְנַחֲמֵ֖י עָמָ֣ל כֻּלְּ/כֶֽם
English Translation
I have heard as these many comforts of all your labor.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 16 Context
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Then Job 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 provoketh 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 join words together again...
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But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.
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Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?
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But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.
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And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me: And my leanness riseth up against...
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He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine advers...
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They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They ga...
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God (Elohim) delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
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I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces:...
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His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my kidneys asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth o...
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He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.
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16
My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
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O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no resting place.
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Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high.
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My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God (Elohim),
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That he would maintain the right of a man with God (Elohim), And of a son of man with his neighbor!
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For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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