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Job 16:16-18
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16 My face is red from incessant weeping,
    and dark shadows ring my eyelids,
17 even though my hands are free of violence
    and my prayer is pure.
18 “O earth, do not cover my blood;[a]
    let my cries never cease to be heard.

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  1. Job 16:18 Cover my blood: blood shed and not covered over is, as it were, a call for vengeance (see Gen 4:10-11; Isa 26:21; Ezek 24:7).
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Job 16:16-18
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16 My face is red with weeping,(A)
    dark shadows ring my eyes;(B)
17 yet my hands have been free of violence(C)
    and my prayer is pure.(D)

18 “Earth, do not cover my blood;(E)
    may my cry(F) never be laid to rest!(G)

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