Job


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 But Job answered and said,


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 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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 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?


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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 afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.


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 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?


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 Their seed is established in their sight with them, 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 take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.


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 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.


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 Therefore they say 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 good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.


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 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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 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.


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 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.


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 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall 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 his bones are moistened with marrow.


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 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.


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 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover 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 are the dwelling places of the wicked?


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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 wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought 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 brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.


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 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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 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?