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My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt `them'.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high.

Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.

But' I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief'.

His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, `And' are become unclean in your sight?

His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is `ready' for me.

Job 16

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.

He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!

Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which' is a witness against me': And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.