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I also could speak as you do,
    if your soul were in my place.
I could heap up words against you
    and shake my head at you;
but I would strengthen you with my mouth,
    and the moving of my lips would relieve your grief.

“Though I speak, my grief is not relieved;
    and though I stop, how am I eased?

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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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