“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
    and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
Surely now God has worn me out;
    (A)he has[a] made desolate all my company.
And he has shriveled me up,
    which is (B)a witness against me,
and my (C)leanness has risen up against me;
    it testifies to my face.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:7 Hebrew you have; also verse 8

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