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Job 16:18-20
New Catholic Bible
Job 16:18-20
New Catholic Bible
18 “O earth, do not cover my blood;[a]
let my cries never cease to be heard.
19 Even now my witness is in heaven;
my defender is on high.
20 Although my friends scorn me,
I pour out tears before God,
Footnotes
- Job 16:18 Cover my blood: blood shed and not covered over is, as it were, a call for vengeance (see Gen 4:10-11; Isa 26:21; Ezek 24:7).
