Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,
and if I hold back, what have I lost?
Surely He[a] has now exhausted me.
You have devastated my entire family.
You have shriveled me up[b]—it has become a witness;
My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:7 Or it
  2. Job 16:8 Or have seized me; Hb obscure

“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;
    and if I refrain, it does not go away.(A)
Surely, God, you have worn me out;(B)
    you have devastated my entire household.(C)
You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness;
    my gauntness(D) rises up and testifies against me.(E)

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