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| But Job answered and said,
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| How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
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| How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
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| To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
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| Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
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| Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
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| He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
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| He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
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| He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
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| He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
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| The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
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| He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
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| By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
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| Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
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| Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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| As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
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| All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
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| My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
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| God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
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| My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
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| Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
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| For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
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| Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
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| Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
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| I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
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| Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
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| This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
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| If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
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| Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
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| Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
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| He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
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| He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
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| The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
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| Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
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| The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
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| For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
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| Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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| Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
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| Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
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| He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
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| The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
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| As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
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| The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
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| There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
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| The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
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| He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
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| He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
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| He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
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| But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
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| Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
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| The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
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| It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
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| It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
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| The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
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| No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
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| The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
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| Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
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| Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
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| Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
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| God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
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| For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
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| To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
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| When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
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| Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
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| And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
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| Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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| Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
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| When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
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| As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
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| When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
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| When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
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| When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
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| The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
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| The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
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| The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
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| When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
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| Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
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| The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
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| I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
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| I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
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| I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
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| And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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| Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
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| My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
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| My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
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| Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
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| After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
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| And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
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| If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
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| I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
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| But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
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| Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
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| For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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| Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
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| They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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| To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
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| Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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| They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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| And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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| They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
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| Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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| Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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| They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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| They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
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| Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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| And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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| My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
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| By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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| He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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| I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
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| Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
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| Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
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| For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
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| Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
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| Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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| When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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| My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
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| I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
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| I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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| My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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| My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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| I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
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| For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
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| Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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| Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
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| If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
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| Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
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| If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
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| Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
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| If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
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| Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
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| For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
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| For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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| If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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| What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
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| Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
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| If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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| Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
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| (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
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| If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
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| If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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| If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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| Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
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| For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
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| If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
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| If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
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| If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
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| And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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| This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
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| If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
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| Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
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| If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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| The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
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| If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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| Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
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| Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
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| Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
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| I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
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| If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
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| If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
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| Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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| So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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| Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
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| Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
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| Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
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| When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.
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| And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.
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| I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
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| But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
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| Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
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| Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.
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| Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.
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| Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
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| Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
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| Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
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| They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
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| When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)
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| I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
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| For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
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| Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
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| I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
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| Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
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| For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
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