Job 16:2

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I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

“Can something tasteless be eaten without salt,
Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

“Shall a multitude of words go unanswered,
And a talkative man be acquitted?

“O that you would be completely silent,
And that it would become your wisdom!

“How long will you torment me
And crush me with words?

“What a help you are to

the weak!

How you have saved the arm without strength!

This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;

“But you smear with lies;
You are all worthless physicians.

For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.

the latter do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;