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But nothing I say helps,
    and being silent does not calm my pain.
You have worn me out, God;
    you have let my family be killed.
    You have seized me; you are my enemy.
I am skin and bones,
    and people take that as proof of my guilt.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:8 Verses 7-8 in Hebrew are unclear.

“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;
    and if I refrain, it does not go away.(A)
Surely, God, you have worn me out;(B)
    you have devastated my entire household.(C)
You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness;
    my gauntness(D) rises up and testifies against me.(E)

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