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| [1]And Job answereth and saith: -- |
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| [2]Also -- to-day [is] my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing. |
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| [3]O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat, |
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| [4]I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [with] arguments. |
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| [5]I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me. |
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| [6]In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth [it] in me. |
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| [7]There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge. |
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| [8]Lo, forward I go -- and He is not, And backward -- and I perceive him not. |
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| [9][To] the left in His working -- and I see not, He is covered [on] the right, and I behold not. |
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| [10]For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me -- as gold I go forth. |
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| [11]On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside, |
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| [12]The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth. |
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| [13]And He [is] in one [mind], And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired -- and He doth [it]. |
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| [14]For He doth complete my portion, And many such things [are] with Him. |
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| [15]Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him. |
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| [16]And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled me. |
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| [17]For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness. |
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