Job 16:7

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Job 16:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

6 Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

7 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

8 You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

9 His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

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“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

Psalms 6:7

My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

Proverbs 3:11

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Proverbs 3:12

for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

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Micah 6:13

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the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Job 1:16

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Job 1:17

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Job 1:18

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Job 1:19

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Job 29:5

when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,

Job 29:6

when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

Job 29:7

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

Job 29:8

the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet.

Job 29:9

The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.

Job 29:10

The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

Job 29:11

For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,

Job 29:12

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

Job 29:13

The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

Job 29:14

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.

Job 29:15

I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

Job 29:17

I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

Job 29:18

So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

Job 29:19

My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.

Job 29:20

My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.’

Job 29:21

Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel.

Job 29:22

After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.

Job 29:23

They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

Job 29:24

If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.

Job 29:25

I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.