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My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me. |
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Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation. |
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Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me? |
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For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them. |
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He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. |
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But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face. |
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow. |
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Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. |
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Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger. |
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But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you. |
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My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. |
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They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness. |
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If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; |
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If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister; |
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Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? |
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It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust. |
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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, |
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How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. |
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Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight? |
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Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? |
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Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine. |
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The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out. |
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The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down. |
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils. |
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A gin shall take him by the heel, And a snare shall lay hold on him. |
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A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way. |
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Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels. |
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His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side. |
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The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members. |
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He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors. |
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There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. |
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His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off. |
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His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street. |
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He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. |
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He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned. |
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They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted. |
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Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God. |
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Then Job answered and said, |
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How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words? |
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These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me. |
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And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself. |
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If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach; |
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Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net. |
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice. |
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He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths. |
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He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head. |
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He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree. |
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He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries. |
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His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent. |
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He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. |
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My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. |
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They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. |
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I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, Though I entreat him with my mouth. |
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My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother. |
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Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me. |
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All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me. |
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. |
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me. |
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Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh? |
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Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! |
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That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever! |
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But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth: |
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And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; |
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Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me. |
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If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me; |
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Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment. |
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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, |
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Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me. |
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I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me. |
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Knowest thou not this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth, |
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That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment? |
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Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds; |
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Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. |
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The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him. |
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His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth. |
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His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust. |
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Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue, |
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Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth; |
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Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him. |
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He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly. |
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He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him. |
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He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter. |
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That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice. |
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For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. |
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Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth. |
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There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure. |
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In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him. |
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When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating. |
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He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through. |
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He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him. |
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All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown by man shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent. |
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The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him. |
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The increase of his house shall depart; His goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
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This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the heritage appointed unto him by God. |