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Then Job answered and said, |
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Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations. |
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Suffer me, and I also will speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. |
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As for me, is my complaint to man? and why should I not be impatient? |
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Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. |
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Even when I remember I am troubled, and horror taketh hold on my flesh. |
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Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power? |
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Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes. |
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Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. |
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Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. |
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They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. |
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They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. |
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They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol. |
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Yet they said unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. |
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What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? |
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Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. |
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How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? that their calamity cometh upon them? that {cf15i God} distributeth sorrows in his anger? |
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That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away? |
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{cf15i Ye say}, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it. |
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Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. |
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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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Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. |
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One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet: |
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His breasts are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened. |
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And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and never tasteth of good. |
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They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covereth them. |
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Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. |
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For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt? |
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Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens? |
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That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? that they are led forth to the day of wrath? |
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Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? |
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Yet shall he be borne to the grave, and shall keep watch over the tomb. |
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The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him. |
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How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood? |
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