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1 | Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and
understood it. |
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2 | What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto
you. |
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3 | Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason
with God. |
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4 | But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. |
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5 | O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be
your wisdom. |
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6 | Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my
lips. |
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7 | Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? |
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8 | Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? |
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9 | Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man
mocketh another, do ye so mock him? |
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10 | He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. |
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11 | Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall
upon you? |
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12 | Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies
of clay. |
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13 | Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come
on me what will. |
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14 | Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in
mine hand? |
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15 | Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will
maintain mine own ways before him. |
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16 | He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come
before him. |
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17 | Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. |
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18 | Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be
justified. |
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19 | Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my
tongue, I shall give up the ghost. |
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20 | Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself
from thee. |
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21 | Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me
afraid. |
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22 | Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer
thou me. |
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23 | How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my
transgression and my sin. |
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24 | Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine
enemy? |
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25 | Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue
the dry stubble? |
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26 | For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to
possess the iniquities of my youth. |
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27 | Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly
unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my
feet. |
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28 | And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is
moth eaten. |
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