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| My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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| I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
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| 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?
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| Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
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| Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
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| That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
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| Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
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| Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
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| Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
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| Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
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| Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
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| Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
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| And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
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| If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
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| 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;
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| For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
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| Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
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| 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.
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| Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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| 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.
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| Analysis
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| Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
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| Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
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| Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
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| For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
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| But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
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| And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
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| Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
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| It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
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| The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
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| If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
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| For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
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| For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
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| If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
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| If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
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| For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
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| Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
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| And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
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| And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
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| Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
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| But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
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| Analysis
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| And Job answered and said,
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| No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
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| But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
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| I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
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| He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
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| The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
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| But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
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| Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
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| Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
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| In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
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| Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
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| With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
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| With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
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| Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
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| Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
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| With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
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| He leadeth counsellers away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
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| He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
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| He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
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| He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
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| He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
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| He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
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| He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
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| He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
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| They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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| Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
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| What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
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| Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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| But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
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| O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
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| Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
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| Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
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| Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
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| Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
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| He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
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| Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
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| Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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| Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
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| Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
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| Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
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| He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
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| Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
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| Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
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| Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
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| Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
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| Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
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| Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
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| How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
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| Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
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| Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
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| For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
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| 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.
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| And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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| Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
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| He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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| And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
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| Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
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| Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
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| Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
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| 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;
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| Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
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| But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
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| As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
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| So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
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| 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 time, and remember me!
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| If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
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| Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
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| For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
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| My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
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| And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
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| 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 man.
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| Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
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| His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
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| But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
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| Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
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| Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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| Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
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| Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
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| For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
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| Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
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| Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
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| Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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| What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
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| With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
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| Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
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| Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
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| That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
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| What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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| Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
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| How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
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| I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
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| Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
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| Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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| The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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| A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
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| He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
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| He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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| Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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| For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
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| He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
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| Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
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| And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
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| He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
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| He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
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| Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
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| It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
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| He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
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| For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
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| They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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| Analysis
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| Then Job answered and said,
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| 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?
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| I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
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| But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
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| Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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| But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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| 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.
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| They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
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| God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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| 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.
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| His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
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| He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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| I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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| My face is foul with weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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| 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.
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| Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
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| My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
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| O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
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| When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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| My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
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| Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
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| Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
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| For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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| He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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| 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.
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| Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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| The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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| But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
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| My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
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| They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
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| If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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| I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou are my mother, and my sister.
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| And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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| They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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