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Job 16:2

Verse 2 of 22. The 16th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1Then Job answered,

2“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

4I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

5but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

6“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.