11 “What strength do I have, that I should still hope?
    What prospects, that I should be patient?(A)

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11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

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26 Do you mean to correct what I say,
    and treat my desperate words as wind?(A)

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26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

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11 “Therefore I will not keep silent;(A)
    I will speak out in the anguish(B) of my spirit,
    I will complain(C) in the bitterness of my soul.(D)

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11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;
    and if I refrain, it does not go away.(A)

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Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

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“Is my complaint(A) directed to a human being?
    Why should I not be impatient?(B)

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As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

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“Even today my complaint(A) is bitter;(B)
    his hand[a] is heavy in spite of[b] my groaning.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 23:2 Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew / the hand on me
  2. Job 23:2 Or heavy on me in

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

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