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my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. : How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? : Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? : Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. : Now therefore be
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content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie. : Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. : Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? : Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also
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like the days of an hireling? : As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: : So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. : When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I
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am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. : My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. : My days are swifter than a weavers shuttle, and are spent without hope. : O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
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: The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. : As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. : He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him
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any more. : Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. : Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? : When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints; : Then
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thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: : So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. : I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. : What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? : And
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that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? : How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? : I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am
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a burden to myself? : And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. : Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, : How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the
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words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? : Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? : If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; : If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; : If thou wert pure and upright; surely
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now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. : Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. : For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: : (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon
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earth are a shadow:) : Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? : Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? : Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. : So are the paths of all that
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forget God; and the hypocrites hope shall perish: : Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web. : He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. : He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
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: His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. : If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. : Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. : Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man,
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neither will he help the evil doers: : Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. : They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. : Then Job answered and said, : I know it is so of a truth: but how should man
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be just with God? : If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. : He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? : Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. : Which shaketh the earth out of
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her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. : Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. : Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. : Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. : Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders
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without number. : Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. : Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? : If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. : How much less shall I
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answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? : Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. : If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. : For he breaketh me with a tempest,
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and multiplieth my wounds without cause. : He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. : If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? : If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect,
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it shall also prove me perverse. : Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. : This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. : If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. : The earth is given into
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the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? : Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. : They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. : If I say, I will forget
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my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: : I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. : If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? : If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; : Yet shalt thou plunge me
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in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. : For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. : Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. : Let him take his rod away from me, and let not
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his fear terrify me: : Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me. : My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. : I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with
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me. : Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? : Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? : Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as mans days, : That thou enquirest after
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mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? : Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. : Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. : Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring
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me into dust again? : Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? : Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. : Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. : And these things hast thou hid in thine heart:
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I know that this is with thee. : If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. : If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; : For it increaseth. Thou
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huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. : Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. : Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! :
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I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. : Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, : Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
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: A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. : Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, : Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? : Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and
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when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? : For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. : But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; : And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that
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God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. : Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? : It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? : The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. : If he
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cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? : For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? : For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild asss colt. : If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; : If
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iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. : For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: : Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: : And thine age shall be clearer than
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the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. : And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety. : Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee. : But the eyes of
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the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost. : And Job answered and said, : No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. : But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not
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such things as these? : I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. : He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. : The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and
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they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. : But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: : Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. : Who knoweth not in
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all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? : In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. : Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? : With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. : With him is wisdom and strength,
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he hath counsel and understanding. : Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. : Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. : With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are
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his. : He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. : He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle. : He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. : He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged. : He poureth contempt upon princes, and
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weakeneth the strength of the mighty. : He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. : He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again. : He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in
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a wilderness where there is no way. : They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. : Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. : What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. : Surely I would
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speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. : But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. : O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. : Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. : Will ye speak wickedly for God?
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and talk deceitfully for him? : Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? : Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? : He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. : Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread
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fall upon you? : Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. : Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. : Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? : Though he slay me, yet will I trust
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in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. : He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. : Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. : Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. : Who is he that will plead with
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me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. : Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. : Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. : Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou
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me. : How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. : Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? : Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? : For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess
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the iniquities of my youth. : Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. : And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. : Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full
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of trouble. : He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. : And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? : Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. : Seeing his days are determined, the
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number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; : Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. : For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
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: Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; : Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. : But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? : As the waters fail from the sea,
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and the flood decayeth and drieth up: : So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. : O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set
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time, and remember me! : If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. : Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands. : For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my
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sin? : My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. : And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. : The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of
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man. : Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. : His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them. : But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn. : Then
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answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, : Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? : Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? : Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. : For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the
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tongue of the crafty. : Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. : Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? : Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? : What knowest thou, that we know not? what
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understandest thou, which is not in us? : With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. : Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? : Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, : That thou turnest thy spirit
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against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? : What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? : Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. : How much more abominable and filthy is man,
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which drinketh iniquity like water? : I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; : Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: : Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. : The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and
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the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. : A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. : He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. : He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of
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darkness is ready at his hand. : Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. : For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. : He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: : Because he
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covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks. : And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. : He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. : He shall not depart
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out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. : Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. : It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. : He shall shake off his unripe grape
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as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. : For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. : They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. : Then Job answered and said, : I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
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: Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? : I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my souls stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. : But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage
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your grief. : Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? : But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. : And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
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: He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. : They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. : God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over
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into the hands of the wicked. : I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. : His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the
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ground. : He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. : I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. : My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; : Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
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: O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. : Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. : My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. : O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his
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neighbour! : When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. : My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. : Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? : Lay down now, put me in a surety with
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thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? : For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. : He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. : He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. :
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. : Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. : The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. : But as for you
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all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. : My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. : They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. : If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed
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in the darkness. : I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. : And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? : They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. : Then answered
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Bildad the Shuhite, and said, : How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. : Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? : He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his
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place? : Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. : The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. : The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. : For he is
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cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. : The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. : The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. : Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive
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him to his feet. : His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. : It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. : His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. : It shall dwell
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in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. : His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. : His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. : He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased
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out of the world. : He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. : They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. : Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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: Then Job answered and said, : How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? : These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. : And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. : If indeed ye will magnify
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yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: : Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. : Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. : He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness
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in my paths. : He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. : He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. : He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. :
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His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. : He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. : My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. : They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a
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stranger: I am an alien in their sight. : I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. : My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the childrens sake of mine own body. : Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. : All my
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inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. : My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. : Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. : Why do ye persecute
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me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? : Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! : That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! : For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon
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the earth: : And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: : Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. : But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in
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me? : Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. : Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, : Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. : I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of
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my understanding causeth me to answer. : Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, : That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? : Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; : Yet he shall perish for
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ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? : He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. : The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
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: His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. : His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. : Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; : Though he spare it, and forsake it not;
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but keep it still within his mouth: : Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. : He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. : He shall suck the poison of asps: the vipers tongue shall slay him. :
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He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. : That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein. : Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an
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