Job 16:8
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You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
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You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.
and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.