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| [1]But Job answered and said, |
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| [2]Hear ye, hear ye my words, that I may not have this consolation from you. |
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| [3]Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn. |
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| [4]What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry? |
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| [5]Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek. |
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| [6]For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh. |
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| [7]Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth? |
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| [8]Their seed is according to their desire, and their children are in their sight. |
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| [9]Their houses are prosperous, neither have they any where cause for fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them. |
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| [10]Their cow does not cast her calf, and their beast with young is safe, and does not miscarry. |
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| [11]And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before them, taking up the psaltery and harp; |
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| [12]and they rejoice at the voice of a song. |
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| [13]And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave. |
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| [14]Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways. |
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| [15]What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him? |
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| [16]For their good things were in their hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly. |
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| [17]Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them. |
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| [18]And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up. |
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| [19]Let his substance fail to supply his children: God shall recompense him, and he shall know it. |
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| [20]Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord. |
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| [21]For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off. |
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| [22]Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders? |
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| [23]One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous; |
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| [24]and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused throughout him. |
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| [25]And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing. |
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| [26]But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them. |
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| [27]So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me: |
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| [28]so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly? |
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| [29]Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens. |
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| [30]For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance. |
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| [31]Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done it? who shall recompense him? |
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| [32]And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps. |
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| [33]The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and there are innumerable ones before him. |
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| [34]How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation. |
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