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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 complaints;
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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 my 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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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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