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Job 16:7 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. "
Job 16:7
Verse in Context
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But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes
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Job 16:1
"Then Job answered and said,"
Job 16:2
"I have heard many such things: miserable comforters"
Job 16:3
"Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?"
Job 16:4
"I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at"
Job 16:5
"But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage"
Job 16:6
"Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?"
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