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| [1]But Job answered, and said, |
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| [2]Hear diligently my words, and this shall be instead of your consolations. |
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| [3]Suffer me, that I may speak, and when I have spoken, mock on. |
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| [4]Do I direct my talk to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled? |
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| [5]Mark me, and be abashed, and lay your hand upon your mouth. |
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| [6]Even when I remember, I am afraid, and fear taketh hold on my flesh. |
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| [7]Wherefore do the wicked live, and wax old, and grow in wealth? |
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| [8]Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes. |
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| [9]Their houses are peaceable without fear, and the rod of God is not upon them. |
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| [10]Their bullock gendereth, and faileth not: their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. |
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| [11]They send forth their children like sheep, and their sons dance. |
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| [12]They take the tabret and harp, and rejoice in the sound of the organs. |
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| [13]They spend their days in wealth, and suddenly they go down to the grave. |
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| [14]They say also unto God, Depart from us: for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. |
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| [15]Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we should pray unto him? |
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| [16]Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therefore let the counsel of the wicked be far from me. |
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| [17]How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? And their destruction come upon them? He will divide their lives in his wrath. |
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| [18]They shall be as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. |
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| [19]God will lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, he shall know it. |
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| [20]His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. |
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| [21]For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? |
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| [22]Shall any teach God knowledge, who judgeth the highest things? |
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| [23]One dieth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperity. |
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| [24]His breasts are full of milk, and his bones run full of marrow. |
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| [25]And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. |
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| [26]They shall sleep both in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. |
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| [27]Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong. |
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| [28]For ye say, Where is the prince's house? And where is the tabernacle of the wicked's dwelling? |
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| [29]May ye not ask them that go by the way? And ye cannot deny their signs. |
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| [30]But the wicked is kept unto the day of destruction , and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. |
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| [31]Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall reward him for that he hath done? |
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| [32]Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and remain in the heap. |
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| [33]The slimy valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable. |
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| [34]How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remain but lies? |
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