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Lo, mine eye hath seen all {cf15i this}, mine ear hath heard and understood it. |
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What ye know, {cf15i the same} do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. |
3
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Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. |
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But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. |
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Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. |
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Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. |
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Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? |
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Will ye respect his person? will ye contend for God? |
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Is it good that he should search you out? or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him? |
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He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly respect persons. |
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Shall not his excellency make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you? |
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Your memorable sayings {cf15i are} proverbs of ashes, your defences {cf15i are} defences of clay. |
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Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what wilt. |
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Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? |
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Though he slay me, yet will I wait for him: nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him. |
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This also shall be my salvation; for a godless man shall not come before him. |
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Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears. |
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Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I am righteous. |
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Who is he that will contend with me? for now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost. |
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Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from thy face: |
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Withdraw thine hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid. |
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Then call thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me. |
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How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. |
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? |
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Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? |
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For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth: |
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Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou drawest thee a line about the soles of my feet: |
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Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten. |
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