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“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
and encourage you with what I have to say;[b]
    my words of comfort would lessen your pain.

“But if I speak, my pain isn’t assuaged;
    if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:4 Lit. together words
  2. Job 16:5 Lit. with my mouth

I also could speak like you,
    if you were in my place;
I could make fine speeches against you
    and shake my head(A) at you.
But my mouth would encourage you;
    comfort(B) from my lips would bring you relief.(C)

“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;
    and if I refrain, it does not go away.(D)

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