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Job 16:5-7
International Standard Version

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

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

Job Claims of God’s Mistreatment

7 “God[b] has certainly worn me out;
    you devastated my entire world.[c]

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  1. Job 16:5 Lit. with my mouth
  2. Job 16:7 Lit. He
  3. Job 16:7 Lit. community
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Job 16:5-7
New International Version

5 But my mouth would encourage you;
    comfort(A) from my lips would bring you relief.(B)

6 “Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;
    and if I refrain, it does not go away.(C)
7 Surely, God, you have worn me out;(D)
    you have devastated my entire household.(E)

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