Job:5-10
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Call now ,
if there be any that will answer thee ;
and to which of the saints wilt thou turn ?
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For wrath killeth the foolish man ,
and envy slayeth the silly one .
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I have seen the foolish taking root :
but suddenly I cursed his habitation .
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His children are far from safety ,
and they are crushed in the gate ,
neither is there any to deliver them .
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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up ,
and taketh it even out of the thorns ,
and the robber swalloweth up their substance .
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Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust ,
neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ;
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Yet man is born unto trouble ,
as the sparks fly upward .
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I would seek unto God ,
and unto God would I commit my cause :
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Which doeth great things and unsearchable ;
marvellous things without number :
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Who giveth rain upon the earth ,
and sendeth waters upon the fields :
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To set up on high those that be low ;
that those which mourn may be exalted to safety .
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He disappointeth the devices of the crafty ,
so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise .
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He taketh the wise in their own craftiness :
and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong .
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They meet with darkness in the daytime ,
and grope in the noonday as in the night .
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But he saveth the poor from the sword ,
from their mouth ,
and from the hand of the mighty .
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So the poor hath hope ,
and iniquity stoppeth her mouth .
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Behold ,
happy is the man whom God correcteth :
therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty :
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For he maketh sore ,
and bindeth up :
he woundeth ,
and his hands make whole .
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He shall deliver thee in six troubles :
yea ,
in seven there shall no evil touch thee .
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In famine he shall redeem thee from death :
and in war from the power of the sword .
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Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue :
neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh .
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At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh :
neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth .
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For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field :
and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee .
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And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace ;
and thou shalt visit thy habitation ,
and shalt not sin .
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Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great ,
and thine offspring as the grass of the earth .
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Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age ,
like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season .
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Lo this ,
we have searched it ,
so it is ;
hear it ,
and know thou it for thy good .
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But Job answered and said ,
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Oh that my grief were throughly weighed ,
and my calamity laid in the balances together !
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For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea :
therefore my words are swallowed up .
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For the arrows of the Almighty are within me ,
the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit :
the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me .
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Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass ?
or loweth the ox over his fodder ?
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Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt ?
or is there any taste in the white of an egg ?
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The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat .
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Oh that I might have my request ;
and that God would grant me the thing that I long for !
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Even that it would please God to destroy me ;
that he would let loose his hand ,
and cut me off !
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Then should I yet have comfort ;
yea ,
I would harden myself in sorrow :
let him not spare ;
for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One .
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What is my strength ,
that I should hope ?
and what is mine end ,
that I should prolong my life ?
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Is my strength the strength of stones ?
or is my flesh of brass ?
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Is not my help in me ?
and is wisdom driven quite from me ?
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To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend ;
but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty .
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My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook ,
and as the stream of brooks they pass away ;
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Which are blackish by reason of the ice ,
and wherein the snow is hid :
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What time they wax warm ,
they vanish :
when it is hot ,
they are consumed out of their place .
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The paths of their way are turned aside ;
they go to nothing ,
and perish .
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The troops of Tema looked ,
the companies of Sheba waited for them .
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They were confounded because they had hoped ;
they came thither ,
and were ashamed .
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For now ye are nothing ;
ye see my casting down ,
and are afraid .
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Did I say ,
Bring unto me ?
or ,
Give a reward for me of your substance ?
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Or ,
Deliver me from the enemy '
s hand ?
or ,
Redeem me from the hand of the mighty ?
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Teach me ,
and I will hold my tongue :
and cause me to understand wherein I have erred .
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How forcible are right words !
but what doth your arguing reprove ?
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Do ye imagine to reprove words ,
and the speeches of one that is desperate ,
which are as wind ?
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Yea ,
ye overwhelm the fatherless ,
and ye dig a pit for your friend .
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Now therefore be content ,
look upon me ;
for it is evident unto you if I lie .
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Return ,
I pray you ,
let it not be iniquity ;
yea ,
return again ,
my righteousness is in it .
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Is there iniquity in my tongue ?
cannot my taste discern perverse things ?
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Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth ?
are not his days also like the days of an hireling ?
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As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow ,
and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work :
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So am I made to possess months of vanity ,
and wearisome nights are appointed to me .
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When I lie down ,
I say ,
When shall I arise ,
and the night be gone ?
and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day .
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My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust ;
my skin is broken ,
and become loathsome .
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My days are swifter than a weaver '
s shuttle ,
and are spent without hope .
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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 .
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As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away :
so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more .
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He shall return no more to his house ,
neither shall his place know him any more .
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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 .
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Am I a sea ,
or a whale ,
that thou settest a watch over me ?
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When I say ,
My bed shall comfort me ,
my couch shall ease my complaint ;
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Then thou scarest me with dreams ,
and terrifiest me through visions :
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So that my soul chooseth strangling ,
and death rather than my life .
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I loathe it ;
I would not live alway :
let me alone ;
for my days are vanity .
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What is man ,
that thou shouldest magnify him ?
and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him ?
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And that thou shouldest visit him every morning ,
and try him every moment ?
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How long wilt thou not depart from me ,
nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle ?
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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 a burden to myself ?
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And why dost thou not pardon my transgression ,
and take away mine iniquity ?
for now shall I sleep in the dust ;
and thou shalt seek me in the morning ,
but I shall not be .
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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite ,
and said ,
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How long wilt thou speak these things ?
and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind ?
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Doth God pervert judgment ?
or doth the Almighty pervert justice ?
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If thy children have sinned against him ,
and he have cast them away for their transgression ;
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If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes ,
and make thy supplication to the Almighty ;
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If thou wert pure and upright ;
surely now he would awake for thee ,
and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous .
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Though thy beginning was small ,
yet thy latter end should greatly increase .
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For enquire ,
I pray thee ,
of the former age ,
and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers :
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For we are but of yesterday ,
and know nothing ,
because our days upon earth are a shadow :)
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Shall not they teach thee ,
and tell thee ,
and utter words out of their heart ?
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Can the rush grow up without mire ?
can the flag grow without water ?
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Whilst it is yet in his greenness ,
and not cut down ,
it withereth before any other herb .
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So are the paths of all that forget God ;
and the hypocrite '
s hope shall perish :
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Whose hope shall be cut off ,
and whose trust shall be a spider '
s web .
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He shall lean upon his house ,
but it shall not stand :
he shall hold it fast ,
but it shall not endure .
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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 .
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If he destroy him from his place ,
then it shall deny him ,
saying ,
I have not seen thee .
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Behold ,
this is the joy of his way ,
and out of the earth shall others grow .
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Behold ,
God will not cast away a perfect man ,
neither will he help the evil doers :
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Till he fill thy mouth with laughing ,
and thy lips with rejoicing .
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They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame ;
and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought .
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Then Job answered and said ,
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I know it is so of a truth :
but how should man be just with God ?
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If he will contend with him ,
he cannot answer him one of a thousand .
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He is wise in heart ,
and mighty in strength :
who hath hardened himself against him ,
and hath prospered ?
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Which removeth the mountains ,
and they know not :
which overturneth them in his anger .
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Which shaketh the earth out of her place ,
and the pillars thereof tremble .
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Which commandeth the sun ,
and it riseth not ;
and sealeth up the stars .
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Which alone spreadeth out the heavens ,
and treadeth upon the waves of the sea .
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Which maketh Arcturus ,
Orion ,
and Pleiades ,
and the chambers of the south .
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Which doeth great things past finding out ;
yea ,
and wonders without number .
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Lo ,
he goeth by me ,
and I see him not :
he passeth on also ,
but I perceive him not .
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Behold ,
he taketh away ,
who can hinder him ?
who will say unto him ,
What doest thou ?
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If God will not withdraw his anger ,
the proud helpers do stoop under him .
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How much less shall I answer him ,
and choose out my words to reason with him ?
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Whom ,
though I were righteous ,
yet would I not answer ,
but I would make supplication to my judge .
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If I had called ,
and he had answered me ;
yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice .
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For he breaketh me with a tempest ,
and multiplieth my wounds without cause .
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He will not suffer me to take my breath ,
but filleth me with bitterness .
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If I speak of strength ,
lo ,
he is strong :
and if of judgment ,
who shall set me a time to plead ?
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If I justify myself ,
mine own mouth shall condemn me :
if I say ,
I am perfect ,
it shall also prove me perverse .
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Though I were perfect ,
yet would I not know my soul :
I would despise my life .
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This is one thing ,
therefore I said it ,
He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked .
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If the scourge slay suddenly ,
he will laugh at the trial of the innocent .
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked :
he covereth the faces of the judges thereof ;
if not ,
where ,
and who is he ?
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Now my days are swifter than a post :
they flee away ,
they see no good .
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They are passed away as the swift ships :
as the eagle that hasteth to the prey .
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If I say ,
I will forget my complaint ,
I will leave off my heaviness ,
and comfort myself :
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I am afraid of all my sorrows ,
I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent .
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If I be wicked ,
why then labour I in vain ?
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If I wash myself with snow water ,
and make my hands never so clean ;
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Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch ,
and mine own clothes shall abhor me .
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For he is not a man ,
as I am ,
that I should answer him ,
and we should come together in judgment .
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Neither is there any daysman betwixt us ,
that might lay his hand upon us both .
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Let him take his rod away from me ,
and let not his fear terrify me :
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Then would I speak ,
and not fear him ;
but it is not so with me .
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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 enquirest 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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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite ,
and said ,
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