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“I’ve heard many things like this.
    What miserable comforters you all are!
Will windy words like yours never end?
    What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?

“I could also talk like you
    if only you were in my place!
Then I would put together an argument[a] against you.
    I would shake my head at you

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  1. Job 16:4 Lit. together words

“I have heard many things like these;
    you are miserable comforters,(A) all of you!(B)
Will your long-winded speeches never end?(C)
    What ails you that you keep on arguing?(D)
I also could speak like you,
    if you were in my place;
I could make fine speeches against you
    and shake my head(E) at you.

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