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## Job 16:4-5 in Context (Verses 1–8 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/job/16/1) Then Job answered and said,
 
 [2 ](/kjv/job/16/2) I have heard many such things: miserable comforters *are* ye all.*
 
 [3 ](/kjv/job/16/3) Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?*
 
 [4 ](/kjv/job/16/4) I also could speak as ye *do:* if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/job/16/5) *But* I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage *your grief*.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/job/16/6) Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and *though* I forbear, what am I eased?*
 
 [7 ](/kjv/job/16/7) But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/job/16/8) And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, *which* is a witness *against me:* and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
 
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