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and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me
like cheese?
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Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
12
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
13
And these
things
hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this
is
with thee.
14
If I sin, then thou markest me,
and thou wilt not acquit me frommine iniquity.
15
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and
if
I be righteous,
yet
will I not lift up my head.
I am
full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
16
For it
increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
17
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and
war
are
against me.
18
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had
given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19
I should have been as though I had not been; I should
have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20
Are
not my days few? cease
then, and
let me
alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21
Before I go
whence
I shall not return,
even
to the land of
darkness and the shadow of death;
22
A land of darkness, as darkness
itself; and
of the shadow of
death, without any order, and
where
the light
is
as darkness.
CHAPTER 11
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
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Should not the multitude of words be answered?
and should a man full of talk be justified?
3
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when
thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
4
For thou hast said, My doctrine
is
pure, and I
am clean in thine eyes.
5
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
6
And that
he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that
they are
double to that which is! Know therefore
that God exacteth of thee
less
than thine iniquity
deserveth.
7
Canst thou by searching find out
God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
8
It is
as high as heaven; what canst thou
do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
9
The measure thereof
is
longer than the earth, and
broader than the sea.
10
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
11
For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider
it?
12
For vain
man would be wise, though man be born
like
a wild ass’s colt.
13
If thou prepare thine heart, and
stretch out thine hands toward him;
14
If iniquity
be
in thine hand, put it far away, and let not
wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
15
For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou
shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
16
Because thou shalt forget
thy
misery,
and
remember
it
as
waters
that
pass away:
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And
thine
age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth,
thou shalt be as the morning.
18
And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig
about thee, and
thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
19
Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make
thee
afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they
shall not escape, and their hope
shall be as
the giving up of the ghost.
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