Job 16:1-6

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Job Reaffirms His Innocence

16 Then Job answered:

²“I have heard many such things;
    miserable comforters are you all.
³Shall windy words have an end?
    Or what provokes you that you answer?
⁴I also could speak as you do,
    if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you,
    and shake my head at you.
⁵I could strengthen you with my mouth,
    and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

⁶“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

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