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Persecution of Job Job 13:4–13

You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians. / If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom! / Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.

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Persecution of Job Job 16:1–4

Then Job answered: / “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all. / Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

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Persecution of Job Job 17:2

Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

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Persecution of Job Job 19:1–5

Then Job answered: / “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words? / Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

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Persecution of Job Job 30:1–10

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs. / What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them? / Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

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