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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Then Job answered and said, |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances! |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData My soul refuseth to touch `them'; They are as loathsome food to me. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant `me' the thing that I long for! |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData To him that is ready to faint kindness `should be showed' from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Which are black by reason of the ice, `And' wherein the snow hideth itself: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData The caravans `that travel' by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Did I say, Give unto me? Or, Offer a present for me of your substance? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Yea, ye would cast `lots' upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things? |
