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| [1]THEN Job answered and said, |
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| [2]Even today is my complaint bitter; God's hand is heavier and increases my groaning. |
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| [3]Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! |
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| [4]I would lay my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. |
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| [5]I would know what he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. |
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| [6]Would he contend with me with his great power? If he would not, then he will put his fear into me. |
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| [7]There I might contend justly with him; and I might be justified and acquitted |
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| [8]Behold, if he goes before me, I know not; or behind, I cannot perceive him. |
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| [9]I seek him on my left hand, but I cannot behold him; then I turn to my right hand, but I cannot see him. |
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| [10]But it is he who knows my way and my existence, and has tried me like gold, and I came forth pure. |
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| [11]My feet have held firm to his steps, and I have kept his ways. |
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| [12]I have not despised the commandments of his lips; neither have I departed from his will, and have kept the words of his mouth |
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| [13]But in return for one of these, what has he granted me? What his soul desires, even that he does. |
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| [14]But he performs his covenant; and many such things are with him. |
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| [15]Therefore I am fearful at his presence; when I consider, I am afraid of him. |
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| [16]For God has troubled my heart, and my mind is confused: |
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| [17]Because I was not silenced before the darkness, and before the covering of the blackness |
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