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- They flee away, they see no good.
- They are passed away as the swift ships:
- As the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
- If I say, I will forget my complaint,
- I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
- I am afraid of all my sorrows,
- I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
- If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
- If I wash myself with snow water.
- And make my hands never so clean;
- Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch,
- And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,
- And we should come together in judgment.
- Neither is there any daysman betwixt us.
- That might lay his hand upon us both.
- Let him take his rod away from me.
- And let not his fear terrify me:
- Then would I speak, and not fear him;
- But it is not so with me.
- My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself;
- I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- I will say unto God, Do not condemn me;
- Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
- Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress,
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