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| 13:1 |
Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
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| 13:2 |
What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
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| 13:3 |
But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;
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| 13:4 |
For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
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| 13:5 |
Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
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| 13:6 |
Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
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| 13:7 |
Will ye speak unrighteously for God? and for him speak deceit?
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| 13:8 |
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
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| 13:9 |
Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
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| 13:10 |
He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
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| 13:11 |
Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
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| 13:12 |
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
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| 13:13 |
Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!
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| 13:14 |
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
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| 13:15 |
Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
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| 13:16 |
This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.
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| 13:17 |
Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.
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| 13:18 |
Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
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| 13:19 |
Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
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| 13:20 |
Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.
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| 13:21 |
Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy terror make me afraid:
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| 13:22 |
Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.
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| 13:23 |
How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
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| 13:24 |
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
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| 13:25 |
Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
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| 13:26 |
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;
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| 13:27 |
And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; --
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| 13:28 |
One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
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