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| [1]And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: -- |
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| [2]God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty -- He made my soul bitter. |
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| [3]For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils. |
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| [4]My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit. |
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| [5]Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me. |
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| [6]On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live. |
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| [7]As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse. |
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| [8]For what [is] the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul? |
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| [9]His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him? |
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| [10]On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times? |
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| [11]I shew you by the hand of God, That which [is] with the Mighty I hide not. |
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| [12]Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why [is] this -- ye are altogether vain? |
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| [13]This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive. |
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| [14]If his sons multiply -- for them [is] a sword. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread. |
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| [15]His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep. |
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| [16]If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing, |
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| [17]He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth [it] on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion. |
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| [18]He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made. |
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| [19]Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not. |
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| [20]Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind. |
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| [21]Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place, |
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| [22]And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth. |
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| [23]It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place. |
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