| 1: But Job answered and said, |
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| 2: Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
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Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock
on. |
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| 4: As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why
should not my spirit be troubled? |
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| 5: Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
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| 6: Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on
my flesh. |
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| 7: Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in
power? |
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| 8: Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their
offspring before their eyes. |
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| 9: Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God
upon them. |
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| 10: Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and
casteth not her calf. |
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| 11: They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their
children dance. |
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| 12: They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of
the organ. |
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| 13: They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to
the grave. |
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| 14: Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire
not the knowledge of thy ways. |
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| 15: What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what
profit should we have, if we pray unto him? |
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| 16: Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the
wicked is far from me. |
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| 17: How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft
cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his
anger. |
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| 18: They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the
storm carrieth away. |
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| 19: God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth
him, and he shall know it. |
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| 20: His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the
wrath of the Almighty. |
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| 21: For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the
number of his months is cut off in the midst? |
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| 22: Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that
are high. |
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| 23: One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and
quiet. |
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| 24: His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened
with marrow. |
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| 25: And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never
eateth with pleasure. |
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| 26: They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall
cover them. |
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| 27: Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye
wrongfully imagine against me. |
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| 28: For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are
the dwelling places of the wicked? |
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| 29: Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know
their tokens, |
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| 30: That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they
shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. |
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| 31: Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay
him what he hath done? |
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| 32: Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the
tomb. |
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| 33: The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every
man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. |
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| 34: How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there
remaineth falsehood? |
