Biblia
- 1
- And Job answereth and saith: --
- 2
- I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters `are' ye all.
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- Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
- 4
- I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.
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- I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
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- If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?
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- Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,
- 8
- And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.
- 9
- His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.
- 10
- They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.
- 11
- God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.
- 12
- At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.
- 13
- Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.
- 14
- He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.
- 15
- Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.
- 16
- My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids `is' death-shade.
- 17
- Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer `is' pure.
- 18
- O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.
- 19
- Also, now, lo, in the heavens `is' my witness, And my testifier in the high places.
- 20
- My interpreter `is' my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:
- 21
- And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.
- 22
- When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.