Holy Scripture
Job 16:6
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“It would be easy for me to speak like this just as you did if I were in your condition. But now I am impeded by a pain which neither speech nor silence does not take away, and so he continues, "But what am I to do? If I speak, my pain will not be stilled and if I keep silence, it will not go away from me." For there a…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: And if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?
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4I also will speak as ye do: If indeed your soul were in my soul’s stead, Then would I insult you with words, And I would shake my head at you.
5And would there were strength in my mouth, And I would not spare the movement of my lips.
— Job 16:6 —
7But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; And thou hast laid hold of me.
8My falsehood has become a testimony, And has risen up against me: It has confronted me to my face.