| 1: But Job answered and said, |
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| 2: 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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| 4: 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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| 5: Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox
over his fodder? |
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| 6: Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there
any taste in the white of an egg? |
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| 7: The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful
meat. |
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| 8: Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me
the thing that I long for! |
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| 9: Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let
loose his hand, and cut me off! |
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| 10: 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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| 11: What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine
end, that I should prolong my life? |
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| 12: Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of
brass? |
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| 13: Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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| 14: To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his
friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. |
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| 15: My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the
stream of brooks they pass away; |
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| 16: Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow
is hid: |
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| 17: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they
are consumed out of their place. |
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| 18: The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing,
and perish. |
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| 19: The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for
them. |
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| 20: They were confounded because they had hoped; they came
thither, and were ashamed. |
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| 21: For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are
afraid. |
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| 22: Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your
substance? |
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| 23: Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the
hand of the mighty? |
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| 24: Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to
understand wherein I have erred. |
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| 25: How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
reprove? |
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| 26: Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that
is desperate, which are as wind? |
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| 27: Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your
friend. |
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| 28: Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident
unto you if I lie. |
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| 29: Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return
again, my righteousness is in it. |
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| 30: Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern
perverse things? |
