Job 16:20
My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
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- Job 12:4-5 : 4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne. 5 Hee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche.
- Job 16:4 : 4 I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,
- Job 17:2 : 2 There are none but mockers with mee, & mine eye continueth in their bitternesse.
- Ps 109:4 : 4 For my friendship they were mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe to praier.
- Ps 142:2 : 2 I powred out my meditation before him, and declared mine affliction in his presence.
- Hos 12:4-5 : 4 And had power ouer the Angel, and preuailed: he wept and praied vnto him: he founde him in Beth-el, and there he spake with vs. 5 Yea, the Lorde God of hostes, the Lorde is himselfe his memoriall.
- Luke 6:11-12 : 11 Then they were filled full of madnes, and communed one with another, what they might doe to Iesus. 12 And it came to passe in those dayes, that he went into a mountaine to praye, & spent the night in prayer to God.
- Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the dayes of his flesh did offer vp prayers and supplications, with strong crying and teares vnto him, that was able to saue him from death, and was also heard in that which he feared.
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21 Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
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15 I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.
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19 For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.
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18 The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
19 All my secret friends abhorred me, & they whome I loued, are turned against me.
20 My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
21 Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
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16 For these things I weepe: mine eye, euen mine eye casteth out water, because the comforter that should refresh my soule, is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemie preuailed.
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7 Mine eye is dimmed for despight, and sunke in because of all mine enemies.
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2 There are none but mockers with mee, & mine eye continueth in their bitternesse.
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6 Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.
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3 My teares haue bin my meate day & night, while they dayly say vnto me, Where is thy God?
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20 Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.
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9 His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.
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14 I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.
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10 Mine heart panteth: my strength faileth me, and the light of mine eyes, euen they are not mine owne.
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21 They haue heard that I mourne, but there is none to comfort mee: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shalbe like vnto me.
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49 Mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not,
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13 He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
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51 Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my citie.
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8 Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.
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